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Death sentences allegedly imposed on two Nepali nationals in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and new measures taken by the Nepalese government to curb the smuggling of medicinal ingredients into the TAR indicate

For the first time in the history of the region, the 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Drodul Thinley Dorje, will travel to Darjeeling, to participate in pujas to commemorate the late venerable Bokar Rinpoche.

The Miss Tibet pageant will not be disaster this year. The five contestants, who arrived here today, will ensure that the crowning of Miss Tibet 2004 will not be as tough or should we say as embarrassing for the organisers as it was last year when the lone contestant had to be crowned winner.

"I want to show to the world that Tibetan girls are smart and educated, capable of winning beauty contests. This is why I'm here," said Tashi Yangchen, one of the five contestants for the Miss Tibet pageant who arrived here today.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, visited El Salvador Wednesday as part of his tour of Latin American countries and the United States.

Optimistic reports of slow but steady progress towards democratic governance in China are, in the main, based on self-serving analysis or outright wishful thinking.

Unfazed by the criticism that beauty pageants are un-Buddhist and untraditional, Tibetan damsels eyeing the third Miss Tibet crown will descend on the abode of the Dalai Lama on Thursday morning.

The team is positioned in the 12,000' capital city of Lhasa acclimatizing and assembling gear, and undertaking some final training with the six blind Tibetan teenagers from the Braille Without Borders school.

Envoys of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, have been allowed to pay a secretive visit to China that analysts say could lead to progress in resolving his decades-old exile.

The international festival, Tibet: Traditions, Art and Philosophy, will be held in Moscow from October 14 to 31. Nine Tibetan monks from the Gyudmed Monastery have already begun making two-meter tall butter sculptures