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Beijing emphatically rejects the idea of a special deal with Tibet, on the lines of the “One country, Two systems” compromise that Beijing has undertaken with Hong Kong and Macao.

These days, His Holiness The Dalai Lama is giving teachings in Dharamsala and unlike last year, due to his poor health, he can't teach for a long time. He teaches only for two and a half-hour in the mornings from 9 to 11.30am.

The Canada Tibet Committee (CTC) today called upon the Government of Canada to actively promote the commencement of substantive negotiations between representatives of the Dalai Lama and China to a visiting delegation of officials from the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR).

A new "Re-education-through-Labour" (Ch:laojiao) camp has been established in Senge Township, Ngari County, Tibet Autonomous Region ("TAR"). The camp which will accommodate about two hundred inmates became functional in July 2004 when the construction work was completed.

No other land has been transformed so completely as that of Tibet, particularly after the Dalai Lama went into exile in 1959. Renowned but forbidden places like the Potala Palace and the Norbulingka summer palace have been opened to the public.

The Houston community will get a rare glimpse of relics of the Buddha and many of his revered disciples in a display open next weekend at Jade Buddha Temple.

The official Chinese media's ignorance of Tibetan culture never ceases to surprise us. The Xinhuanet today reported that a forthcoming session of Buddhist theological exams in Lhasa will be presided over by a panel of "16 buddhas"

After having spoken to reporters, misquotations, misrepresentations and misinterpretations are what everyone doesn’t want to see but fails. In 2001, protests and demonstrations against His Holiness the Dalai Lama were seen after a newspaper report misquoted the Tibetan leader who was speaking in Chennai.

Campaigners opposed to the inclusion of a Chinese Army band in this year’s Tattoo are to stage their own alternative event. The one-day Free Tibet music festival, in protest at the appearance of the People’s Liberation Army band, will feature ten bands, ten DJs and ten hours of music on August 1.

Four Tibetan monks shared part of their culture with Cincinnatians this week as they constructed a sand mandala in the atrium of the Main Library, downtown