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Preparing for the Dalai Lama has been like a political campaign: logistics, courtesy calls, mustering the troops. But in a way, it's all for the people such as Jackie Downey, a retired art teacher from Boca Raton.

Chinese surveyors are about to travel across the country's west, to create more detailed maps of the largely uncharted region.

Activists hope to use the Olympics' closing ceremony as a way to send the world a message about human rights abuses in China, the next host of the Summer Games.

Lost in Tibet by Starks and Murcutt is an engaging tale of the ordeal of five American airmen who jumped off their C-87 to save their lives as it ran out of fuel mid-air while they were fighting the aweful weather to get back to their base in India, flying from China.

The Dalai Lama is still the leader of Tibet. He may be just a figurehead, but China, which annexed Tibet in 1959 and drove the Dalai Lama and his followers into India, knows that only this monk can convince his people to reconcile to Beijing's control over Lhasa.

Larry Gerstein can't hide his excitement about a rare collection of Buddha relics that will be on display today and Sunday at the Tibetan Cultural Center in Bloomington.

On September 1, 2004, the Rowell Fund for Tibet of the International Campaign for Tibet will begin accepting applications for funding from Tibetans in the language and visual arts who can make significant contributions to their society.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)has said its Executive Director Carol Bellamy will visit Tibet to check progress of health, nutrition and education saying although conditions have improved in recent years

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet will make his first-ever visit to Broward County, Florida on Saturday, September 18, 2004. This event at NSU will serve as the initial stop in His Holiness' multi-country visit to Caribbean and the Americas.

Major Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia will tomorrow publish the International Tibet Support Network's Tibet advertisement that has been the cause of controversy over the last few days.