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A professor at Black Hills State University has been picked to be part of a program that teaches science to monastic scholars in India.

The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to allow the Tibetan community living in the state to draw ration from fair price shops on permits.

Residents of the Ladakhi capital are celebrating the famous 'Losar' or New Year festival in the belief that the Gods would be pleased and the evil spirits would be waved off. Losar is being celebrated two months in advance to the actual new year as per tradition.

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.