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Tibetans fleeing their homeland to begin a new life abroad are finding their flight getting a little easier thanks to the Indian government. Since February 2002, the Indian mission here has been issuing them special entry permits to travel to India from Nepal.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has spearheaded a fund-raising drive in aid of tsunami victims, some of whom came from Tibetan communities in southern India.

Official Chinese news agencies have reported that Beijing has decided to revive the stalled project to build 13 dams on Salween River (known as Gyalmo Nyulchu in Tibetan and Nu Juiang in Chinese).

Meteorologists in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region have found that the region has experienced more warm winters since the 1990s, indicating a trend of temperature rise in the region.

Police have arrested a man who drove a truck loaded with Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims that overturned in southwestern China, killing 54 and injuring another 41, the government said.

Raja Virbhadra Singh, the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, visited the Central Tibetan Administrations stall at the three  day Rajiv Gandhi book fair which opened today at the courtyard of Sainik guest house, lower Dharamshala.

A fire has destroyed a local government building in a traditionally Tibetan area of southwest China, and sources say arsonists may have set the blaze to protest Chinese rule in the region, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

The Central Tibetan Administration deeply mourns the death of thousands of people in the aftermath of the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in South East Asia and East Africa.

The Gu Chu Sum Movement of Tibet received information through a reliable source that Phuntsok Tsering, a monk from Magar Dhargyeling Monastery in Tibet was arrested in December, 2004 on the charge of possessing portrait of Dalai Lama.

A truck loaded with Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims overturned on a mountain road in western China, killing at least 54 people and injuring 41, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.