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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.

The sixth day of the Tibetan Youth Leadership Training began early in the morning to a mist-engulfed Delhi. After five whole days of intensive mental and physical training contributing towards the upbringing of a complete leader

Tibet Foundation is hosting a 21-day UK Cultural Tour by a group of eleven Tibetan refugee children, with two teachers from the Tibetan Homes Foundation (THF) from 24 January - 13 February 2005.

Even the waiting list is sold out for the Dalai Lama's three-day session in Tucson next September, leaving a separate talk the only chance for Tucsonans hoping to see the spiritual leader of Tibet.