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China is making considerable strides in reducing abuses of human rights, Paul Martin said yesterday, even as its government was clamping down on public displays of mourning after the death of reform-minded leader Zhao Ziyang.

With mercury dipping to its lowest in the last fortnight, Tibetans selling woollen garments in the city are smiling. For, their business has picked up.

China's "Go West" campaign is taking its toll on the natural resource base of China's Western region, which includes 2.5 million square kilometers of Tibetan landmass, said a report from the Environment and Development Desk of the Department of Information and International Relations

With the personal initiative of Mr. Baburao Potbhare and local organization called Sameyik Yuva Manch and Samajik Andolan Manch jointly organized a Tibet awareness meeting on Jan 13, 2005 at Sahil, Parbhini (Maharashtra).

Indo Tibetan Friendship Society- Mysore in collaboration with India Tibet Coordinaton Office, New Delhi has organized Seminar & Lecture Series on "Human Right & India Tibet Relationship" in different Colleges in Mysore University.

A Press Conference is organised Monday 24 January 2005 at 11 a.m. at the "Centre d'Accueil de la presse etrangere", Maison de la Radio, 116 avenue du President Kennedy Paris 16.

Tibet Foundation is hosting a 21-day UK Cultural Tour by a group of eleven Tibetan refugee children, with two teachers from the Tibetan Homes Foundation (THF) in India from 20 January - 13 February 2005.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama said that the Tibetan community in exile would never have become as vibrant as it is today without the help and support of the individuals and organizations who provided assistance and aid.

The International Campaign for Tibet will be awarded the prestigious Geuzen Medal 2005, the Dutch Geuzenverzet 1940-1945 Foundation announced today.

The Dalai Lama and his younger sister set up a scholarship with Nova Southeastern University that will send two Tibetan students to study free of charge in Davie.