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Renovation work began in the Tibetan capital Lhasa this autumn along the main tourist streets facing the east side of the Potala and along most of Yuthog Lam (Chin: Yutuo Lu) running from the Jokhang to the Potala Square in.

The fate of 160 Malaysians is still uncertain. The families of the 54 Malaysians en route to Chennai, India, on a pilgrimage are still praying for the safety of their loved ones.

Paul Martin, the Prime Minister, should cut off all foreign aid to China and tell the Chinese to cease all economic and political espionage activities in Canada, opposition MPs said yesterday.

A death sentence handed to a Tibetan monk over a spate of bombings could be commuted to life in jail, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.

A tiny community of exiled Tibetans who earn their daily bread by selling winter clothes in Jaipur eagerly wait for the day when they would go back to their native land.

Chinese protesters demanded on Thursday that Japan refuse a visit by the Dalai Lama and expel Taiwan's former President Lee Teng-hui, as they burned a picture of Lee outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.

The Central Tibetan Administration held an official prayer for the victims of last weekend's earthquake and subsequent Tsunami that killed thousands of people in south east Asia and Africa.

Indo Tibet Friendship Society along with India Tibet Coordination Office (ITCO) organized a three days' National Convention of Indo Tibet Friendship Society (ITFS) at Charan Sabha Bhavan in Jodhpur.

A group of Korean supporters began a peace march on the 1Oth December coinciding with the world's human rights day and conferment of Nobel Peace Prize to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. After almost twenty days of gruelling walk the marchers reached their destination on 28 December.

Jamyang Norbu's new book, Buying the Dragon's Teeth, is a well-argued and well-documented indictment of China's violation of human rights and labor standards and a call for a boycott of Chinese goods.