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Landlocked Nepal is planning direct bus services to Tibet - the first such service for the kingdom with a region other than India. Nepal's state-owned transport company Sajha Yatayat has announced it will start direct bus services from Kathmandu to Lhasa from September.

The railway is coming to Lhasa. And, if Chinese officials are to be taken at their word, the construction of the Golmud-Lhasa rail track will be environmentally sound when it is completed during the year 2006.

Three thousand signatures have been gathered in Dharamsala, India, requesting the Scottish Lady Provost, Lesley Hinds to retract the invite issued to the Chinese PLA to perform at this year’s Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

India and China ended high-level talks on their border disputes and said top representatives would meet again in search of a resolution to the issue which has dragged since 1988 when negotiations first began.

Lama days are coming to an end. Tibet is now left with only 46,000 of them, including nuns, in a population of 2.7 million. They used to be 110,000, or over 11 per cent, when its population was one million, 40 years ago.

Tibetans and Tibet supporters in Canada challenged China’s claim that everything was fine in Tibet by asking it to provide free access to international organizations like Amnesty International.

The United Nations Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Geneva was informed on July 27, 2004 about the findings of International Campaign for Tibet’s new report on the state of religious freedom in Tibet.

A statement issued on 20 July 2004 by a Tibetan cultural group celebrates the cancellation of famed Chinese athlete Zhang Jian's endeavour to swim across the holy Namtso Lake (Chin. Namco).

Demonstrators are planning to picket the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in protest at a performance by the People's Liberation Army of China.

The Chinese government brought its top Tibetan official to Ottawa yesterday, launching efforts to counter the Dalai Lama's recent visit to Canada.