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Nepal has closed two offices in Kathmandu associated with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Tibetan and foreign ministry sources said Thursday.

A controversial Tibetan lama - to China he's a subversive and a terrorist and to many Tibetans a saint and patriot - has been spared execution, a bullet to the back of the head.

Confirming statements made by the Chinese authorities to foreign governments, the official Chinese press agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday 26 January 2005 the commutation of the death penalty given to Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche into a sentence of life imprisonment.

The Chinese government has commuted the death sentence on Trulku Tenzin Delek to life imprisonment. "The Higher People's Court in Sichuan province, in Southwestern China

The latest announcement of Tulku Tenzin Delek's execution sentence being commuted to life imprisonment by the Higher People's Court of Sichuan Province, is indeed a matter of slight relieve and a fruition of a kind for the Tibetans

The morning of the 26th January, saw the TYC organized ALL INDIA RELAY HUNGER STRIKE culminate with a brief function in Dharamsala, the headquarter of Tibetan Exile Govt.

"I was 54 not out when the sun vanished", recounts Mutthu Swamy a 13-year-old boy of Karikkattlu Kuppam village. They were playing cricket on the calm beach - their village pitch, when the tidal waves as high as the coconut trees came crashing

The recent decision of the Chinese government to eliminate taxes on farming and stock breeding in 22 provinces, and Prime Minister Wen Jianbo's promise of zero-tax for the agricultural sector within five years are welcome and timely.

As a historic 3 feet snowfall enveloped Mcleod Square in Dharamsala this week, a lone makeshift structure tout erect in defiance with the slumped snow-white vicinity.

Authorities in the Chinese capital have beaten and seriously injured a man for wearing a white flower in mourning for late ousted Party leader Zhao Ziyang, and they have arrested hundreds of others, Beijing residents told Radio Free Asia (RFA).