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"Hope for the best but plan for the worst" is the rallying cry as the Kashag grapples with the task of making the Tibetan settlements more functional and viable with the view of retaining the young educated workforce in the settlement.

New information about Tibetan political prisoners, including news about sentence reductions and releases, has reached Tibet Information Network.

Two men were shot dead as they fled members of a Hmong gang after a confrontation at a pool hall Thursday night, authorities said. Four other young men were wounded.

Between the Grand Trunk Road and the banks of Delhi's Yamuna river, a series of dimly lit shacks is all that remains of one of the city's liquid landmarks: a sour barley beer called chhang.

A bus service linking Kathmandu with Lhasa in China's Tibet Autonomous Region will start from May, reports Xinhua. "We are all set to begin a weekly direct bus services between Kathmandu and Lhasa from May 1," Radio Nepal quoted Mukunda Raj Satyal

With most countries and international institutions denouncing the royal coup and demanding a return to democratic rule, the question doing the rounds in Kathmandu is: Who is backing King Gyanendra in this fool-hardy attempt?

South Africa: The following is an article that appeared in a national newspaper and Renato Palmi’s response to the article.

Forty-six years ago the Dalai Lama left Tibet and went into exile with over 100,000 of his Tibetan compatriots. Four years ago the Chinese government and the Tibetan community in exile began official talks.

When the West is sanctimonious about the Chinese takeover of Tibet, it deliberately forgets the first invasion of that country by the British in 1903-04.

Chinese President Hu Jintao underscored Communist Party support on Thursday for the boy Beijing recognises as Tibet's second-most important religious figure despite a different choice by the Dalai Lama.