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Speaking to the TYC members on the occasion of the XII General Body Meeting of TYC, H.H. The Dalai Lama remarked, "Future holds more challenges for the young generation, therefore, they should be well prepared for those challenges".

In What Remains of Us, Kalsang Doma returns to her native country Tibet for the first time. With her, she carries a very important message of hope from the Dalai Lama to his people.

Chinese journalist Lin Gu has just spent a month in Tibet, an intoxicating and spiritual place, where Buddhism remains a dominant force, despite Chinese Communist control.

Serious human rights abuses continue in China. At a congressional hearing on human rights and China's one-child-per-family policy, Michael Kozak, U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights

Human Rights in China (HRIC) called today for the urgent release of prominent Inner-Mongolian prisoner of conscience Hada. Deemed to be "resisting reform," Hada is reported to be routinely subjected to torture and ill-treatment, and held under a particularly harsh disciplinary regimen at Chifeng Prison, Inner Mongolia.

The BJP has demanded identification and deportation of illegal immigrants, who are allegedly "causing population explosion" in the region.

On 24 October 2004, the 71 year-old Tibetan writer Yidam Tsering passed away in Lanzhou city, Gansu Province. Yidam Tsering only wrote in Chinese but his work was translated into Tibetan and was widely read.

Three Nepalese who helped smuggle 30 kilograms (65 pounds) of heroin into Tibet were sentenced Tuesday to long prison terms, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

The Central Tibetan Administration will give 160000 rupees as relief to the families affected by yesterday's fire. This was announced by the acting Kalon Tripa Thupten Lungrik at a meeting with the members of the shopkeepers' association today.

Amid reports from Chinese sources of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche's execution sentence being revoked and changed to life-imprisonment, Downtown Berkeley resounded with slogans and music for a Free Tibet as over a hundred Tibetans and supporters gathered for another evening of candle light vigil and inspirational music.