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Tomorrow, July 3, marks the seventh year since the inception of World Tibet Day – a day linked to the Dalai Lama's birthday, when Tibetans living outside of Tibet and their friends celebrate the rich Tibetan culture

The Dalai Lama celebrates his 69th birthday today. It has been 45 years since about 80 000 Tibetans followed him into exile in India. He now lives in Dharamsala, known as "Little Lhasa", which is the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

Luxury shahtoosh shawls are illegal in order to protect the antelope killed to make them. Hamish McDonald in Rutog, Tibet, reports on a possible alternative.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama spent his 69th birthday resting after his doctors advised him to slow down his gruelling schedule, aides said.

The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, turned 69 Tuesday amidst reports that China was hardening its stance on his demand for internal self-rule in Tibet and was even looking for his reincarnation to succeed him.

UNESCO has urged China to take more care of Beijing's Forbidden City and Tibet's Potala Palace and says it plans to re-examine whether they should be put on a danger list.

On this auspicious occasion of the 69th birthday celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Kashag on behalf of the Tibetan people inside and outside Tibet would like to pay its deep respect by offering our warm greetings

They were on subway trains from Queens and Brooklyn. They were on cars and trains from Connecticut and other parts of upstate New York. Some of them had journeyed the day before on the cheap China Town buses from Boston and Washington, D.C.

THE TIBETAN refugees are one of the most resilient and successful refugee groups in the world. Secluded as they were for several centuries in the "roof of the world" with hardly any contact with other societies and cultures

China'sambassador to the UK will be quizzed on his country's poor human rights record when he visits Glasgow later this month. Zha Peixin is due in the city in a fortnight for the launch of a major art exhibition - One Million Days In China - at the Burrell Collection.