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With a Candle-Light Vigil and a brief ceremony, the five-day campaign to save Tulku Tenzin Delek concluded in Azad market, Mumbai amidst hundreds of Tibetans and Indians.

A bull-dozer removes debris of demolished buildings near the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, to make way for expansion of the square in front of the palace. The project, initiated by the Tibet Autonomous Region government, paves the way on a beautification plan for the palace to increase tourism.

China on Thursday urged Russia to "properly handle" the upcoming visit of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, citing his quest to "split Tibet from the motherland".

Next All India convention of India-Tibet Friendship Society is going to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Tibetan Government-in-exile Prof. S. Rinpoche under the Chairmanship of Former Speaker of Indian Parliament Shri Rabi Ray.

The latest medical research from China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau shows plateau residents have a higher incidence of cataracts than plains residents.

Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, would be happy to travel to Russia on a pastoral visit provided Moscow gave him a visa of its own accord the Reuters news agency reports

Guy Lieberman is one of the oldest supporters of the Tibetan cause. He has been actively involved in many of the Tibet related campaigns in South Africa and other parts of the world.

Russia reportedly is worried about publicity surrounding the proposed trip of the Dalai Lama to its republic of Kalmykia.

Dr Jim Poyner relaxes with Mrs Stuart, Dr Jill Poyner and Ms Hogan. A DENTAL team from Albury treated hundreds of Tibetan refugees and their Indian hosts when they visited the Indian-Tibet border region for five days last month.

Over 50 Tibetan demonstrators on Wednesday began a five-day hunger strike demanding immediate release of their spiritual leader Tulku Tenzin Delek, under detention in Tibet since 2002 and facing a death sentence.