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The International Tibet Support Network (ITSN) today released a report documenting human rights abuses in Chinese occupied Tibet. 'China Plays Games with Human Rights', concludes that IOC President Jacques Rogge's 24 April 2002 statement

Mr Henri CARTIER BRESSON, legendary photographer of international renown, has passed away in the French alps town of St Justin on Tuesday the 3rd August 2004. His decease was announced only this morning.

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," or so goes an old English saying; and this is indeed the predicament of Tibetan officials in today's Tibet.

After the much-hyped maiden and successful Ms Tibet beauty pageant in 2002, if the event last year had turned out to be a major fiasco the fate of the third beauty pageant – to be held in October this year – also appears to be hanging in balance.

Lin Gu, a writer based in the Chinese capital, Beijing, travelled to the remote and beautiful mountainous region bordering Tibet. The area has been named a World Heritage Site and is now attracting tourists from home and abroad.

New detention regulations to defend the legal rights of prisons, but violations are continuous against bishops, pastors, Tibetans, and Falun Gong members.

Pageants promote causes. AIDS awareness, poverty alleviation, peace, literacy and so on and so forth. The beauty pageant in the exile community two years back received a wide coverage in the media, both in domestic and international arenas.

US-based Human Rights Watch urged China to immediately lift all restrictions on "Singing Nun" Phuntsog Nyidron, who was released after being Tibet's longest serving female political prisoner.

The Dalai Lama has said that he is encouraged by the increasing interest in religion in China. He was addressing several hundred Taiwanese and ethnic Chinese devotees in Dharamsala on July 28 and 31, 2004 at the conclusion of a ten-day Buddhist teaching to them.

Thanks to the initiatives of a Tibetan teacher from Darjeeling, the Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Allendale, Michigan, today has a full-fledged program in the history of India.