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Tibetan Youth Congress’s Organizational Secretary, Mrs. Pema Yangchen attended The 7th All India Indo-Tibet Friendship Society's National Convention held in Jodhpur, from 25th to 27th December 2004.

Prime Minister Paul Martin is the first Canadian prime minister to meet with H.H The Dalai Lama in April of 2004, weeks prior to kalachakra for world peace in Toronto. Paul Martin says he wants to make sure Canada plays an important role in the world.

Yvan Loubier, a member of Parliament from the Bloc Quebecois party, said that elected representatives of free countries have a responsibility to respond to the Tibetan's call for help.

The Tibetan Women's Association (TWA) and its 43 regional chapters worldwide declare the year 2005 as the International Year of the 11th Panchen Lama.

The last day of the year 2004 saw the end of the All India Bike Rally at Jantar Mantar, Delhi after covering a distance of 8878 kms. The aforesaid youth belonging to Tibetan Student’s Alliance (TSA)

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said on Friday that he and a congregation of monks and nuns would pray for the thousands of people killed by tsunamis in Buddhist Sri Lanka.

The 61st birthday (as per lunar calendar) of His Eminence Sakya Ghongma Rinpoche, the head of Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, was held yesterday at the Sakya Magon monastery in Rajpur, Uttranchal.

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.