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As the world's most prestigious sporting event comes to a close this weekend, a global human rights group has warned China - the hosts of the next Olympics - to improve "its embarrassing record of continuing human rights abuses" before hosting the 2008 games.

On a dusty river bed in the shadow of the Potala Palace, home of Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama, a bridge is rising that China says will bring prosperity to the Roof of the World.

Audience Asked Not to Applaud the Handover of the Olympic Flag during Closing Ceremony. Prominent Chinese human rights activists, the World Uyghur Congress and international human rights organisations have joined Tibetan rights supporters

With the historic Acropolis site in Athens as a dramatic backdrop, a group of Tibetans unfurled a huge banner today protesting the holding of the 2008 Olympic Games in China.

On Day 4 of our state-managed press trip to Tibet, I took time from a busy schedule of official interviews to try to meet some Tibetans. At press events, we were told Tibet is 92 percent Tibetan, but Lhasa did not reflect that figure.

The number of Tibetans going to McLeodganj and other Tibetan settlements in India has declined. With foreign tourists also not visiting the town the streets of McLeodganj wear a deserted look after dusk these days.

An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale has jolted a mountainous area in Tibet, reported the Chinese state media on Wednesday. The tremor hit Nagqu prefecture north of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa at 6.05 pm (1005 GMT) on Tuesday, said the Xinhua news agency.

The Standing Committee of the Assembly of the Tibetan People’s Deputies has appreciated the efforts of the Friends of Tibet and the Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom to organise a parallel film festival at Mithibai College in Mumbai where the Asian Film Festival is underway.

The head of a Chinese military band performing at this year’s controversial Edinburgh Military Tattoo yesterday made a plea for protesters to leave his performers alone.

The sixth Annual Pawo Thupten Ngodup Memorial Basketball Tournament, like every year, was organized by the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of New York and New Jersey on August 21st and 22nd 2004 in Astoria Park Basketball Court, New York.