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With tears running down many cheeks and chanting "Dalai Lama, we love you", the students of Universidad Iberoamericana, a Catholic institute of 10,000 pupils in northern Mexico

Protests took place across Switzerland on Wednesday to mark the 45th anniversary of an anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet.

Switzerland's interior minister, Pascal Couchepin, has begun a week-long official trip to China, starting with a visit to Tibet.

Hundreds of exiled Tibetans cheered among the crackling firecrackers and flowing ribbons when Tashi Yangchen, who works for an information technology firm, was crowned Miss Tibet 2004.

Tibetan community in Belgium and Tibet Support Group Belgium "Les Amis du Tibet" have organized a vigil for Tibet from Saturday October 9th noon until Sunday 4 pm.

President Jacques Chirac was accused yesterday of brushing aside Beijing's human rights record and the legacy of Tiananmen Square as he launched a public relations exercise intended to boost trade links between France and China.

With the recent arrest of three Tibetans in Nagchu (400 kms north of Lhasa), shooting of Khenpo She Tse in Golok in Kham region in and the continued detention of Trulku Tenzin Delek with a death sentence hanging on this head

The crowning of Miss Tibet 2004 was, again, another spectacular and memorable show in Dharamsala. The much awaited excitement was finally broken when Tashi Yangchen, Miss Tibet 2004, took the stage.

A selection of exciting works by indigenous and under-represented minority-culture storytellers from around the world will be showcased at the first National Geographic All Roads Film Festival, a multimedia event with cutting-edge film, videos, photography

Political events in the course of the last century have forced the issue of human rights to the top of the agenda for Buddhists and Buddhism in Asia. Renato Palmi of the Tibet Society of South Africa reports.