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The Hunger Strikers of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC) led by president Tenzin Norsang entered into its seventh day. The students demand the release of all political prisoners including Panchen Lama and Tulku Tenzin Delek whose suspended death sentence expires on 2nd December, 2004.

Popular South Indian film actress Ramya, participated as the chief guest of the closing ceremony of the TYC auspice Hunger Strike, in Bangalore on Friday, calling for the immediate release of Tulku Tenzin Delek.

The Dzongsar Chokyi Lodro College of Dialectics, a distinguished institution for Tibetan-Budhist higher education, was inaugurated today at Tibetan colony of Chauntra, about 10 km from here.

Sitting on a bench at Berkeley High School, Tenzin Yougyal looks like any other 17-year-old. But he lives in two worlds. Yougyal, a Tibetan American, was born in northern India in Dharamsala, headquarters of the exiled Tibetan government.

Mention the name Dr Albert Shelton and most Americans would be hard pressed to place him. Yet his name should rank alongside those of the world's great explorers and missionaries, such as Dr David Livingstone of Africa

The tracks for a railroad being built to Tibet recently reached the northern bank of the Tuotuohe River, the headstream of the Yangtze River, about 310 miles from the terminus in Lhasa.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama left Dharamsala this morning on a three-day visit to Chauntra Tibetan settlement in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh. After receiving a long life prayer offering, His Holiness will inaugurate the newly built Dzongsar Shedra monastery today.

A resolution calling for an immediate review of Trulku Tenzin Delek's case and commuting of his death sentence was passed in the European Parliament yesterday.

The U.S. State Department has voiced serious concern about the closed-door trial of a Tibetan monk who could face the death penalty when a two-year stay of execution expires in less than three weeks.

Ngawang Sangdrol, a former Tibetan political prisoner, urged the United States government to call upon the Chinese Government to release Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who is currently undergoing a suspended death sentence.