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Taiwan angrily denounced a proposed anti-secession law being considered in Beijing. Officials in Taipei say the new law could provide mainland China with a legal pretext for a military assault on Taiwan.

China plans to enact an anti-secession law, the government said Friday, in a move apparently aimed at promoting Beijing's campaign to pressure Taiwan into uniting with the mainland.

The RTYC, Baroda has organized a project called "Glimpse of Tibet" for two days, i.e., 15th and 16th of Dec. 2004. The project was started with a speech from the president giving the introduction of the project and the Tibetan culture.

Tenzin Yangkyi Chhoekyapa, a Tibetan girl of 16 was awarded the best sports woman of the year at one of top schools in Canberra, Australia's capital city.

On December 14, Mr. Thomas Mann, MEP, announced the re-establishment of the European Parliament's Intergroup for Tibet after gaining the support of 120 MEPs and three of the party groups in the new parliament.

Beijing announced today that Yang Chuantang has been moved back to the Tibet Autonomous Region to take over as Party Secretary from Guo Jinlong, after his brief stint in Qinghai as deputy Party chief.

Xinhuanet reports that Yang Chuangtang, who had become governor of Qinghai province in early 2004, has now been appointed Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), the most powerful position in the province.

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy received reliable information on Bangri Rinpoche’s arrest of 26 August 1999. (Ref: TCHRD Update January 2000 & December 2003)

Scientists from India working in the Himalayas have discovered a new species of monkey, a stocky, short-tailed, brown-haired creature they have named the Macaca munzala, or Arunachal macaque.

Under the presidentship of the former speaker of the Indian Parliament Shri Rabi Ray, the All India Convention of India-Tibet Friendship Society will be held in Jodhpur from 25-27 December, according to a release from Mr. Manoj Singh, Organising Secretary of the India-Tibet Friendship Society.