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India Tibet Coordination Office (ITCO) in collaboration with the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), Washington D.C. organized a seminar on China’s railway line to Tibet, one of China’s most premeditated strategies with regard to Tibet.

Himalaya Parivar organised a two days' workshop at Nishkasan Sewa Trust in Haridwar from January 1-2, 2005. More than 100 participants from various regions of India including executive members of Tibetan Youth Congress and India Tibet Coordination office participated in the workshop.

The death toll froma severe road accident that happened Monday in northwest China's Qinghai Province rose to 55, local sources told Xinhua Thursday noon.

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.