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Three Nepalese who helped smuggle 30 kilograms (65 pounds) of heroin into Tibet were sentenced Tuesday to long prison terms, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

The Central Tibetan Administration will give 160000 rupees as relief to the families affected by yesterday's fire. This was announced by the acting Kalon Tripa Thupten Lungrik at a meeting with the members of the shopkeepers' association today.

Amid reports from Chinese sources of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche's execution sentence being revoked and changed to life-imprisonment, Downtown Berkeley resounded with slogans and music for a Free Tibet as over a hundred Tibetans and supporters gathered for another evening of candle light vigil and inspirational music.

China's massive programme to build roads all along the border in Tibet and into the sub-continent has finally woken up India and Bhutan. Over the last decade, China nearly doubled the length of its road transport network in Tibet to nearly 40,000 km.

In a lengthy essay, entitled "Tibet Facing Imperialism of Two Kinds: An Analysis of the Woeser Incident", Wang Lixiong, one of Mainland China's foremost researchers on Tibet, argues that the persecution of Woser, a Tibetan writer

An Indian team will visit Beijing later this month for talks with Chinese authorities. The two sides will discuss the structural measures required on Parechu river in Tibet to prevent floods.

As many as 10 shops, most of them selling garments and antiques, one restaurant and a hotel, all belonging to Tibetans, were destroyed in a fire that broke out in the McLeodganj market at 3.30 am today.

A massive fire broke out this morning around 3.30 in McLeod Ganj setting ablaze nine shops, a restaurant, a hotel cum restaurant, an office and five residential houses, all belonging to Tibetans.

Seated on a rickety chair by a computer, with his back to rows of books on the Dalai Lama and excited activists, 39-year-old Lobsang Nyandak Zayul is a worried man.

Officially atheist China, criticised overseas for its intolerance of religion, has announced new rules enshrining religious belief as a basic human right as it confronts social and economic change.