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China's southwest Tibet Autonomous Region is undergoing one of the best periods of development in its history. This is according to Chairman of the region's government Jampa Phuntsok, who talked with Canadian experts in Vancouver on Friday.

The 2004 International Half Marathon Championship will be held in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, in mid-September, which is the first time for China to host a marathon in this high-altitude region.

In Wisconsin, horror has struck about 80 Tibetans and number of American friends to support Thubten la and his family. Many of them were carrying post signs like "Thubten is a Good Dad", "He is a Man"

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of the Russian internal republic of Kalmykia, see no reasons why the Dalai Lama should be denied entry into Russia.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will begin a ten- day teaching on Ngagrim Chenmo (Tsongkhapa’s Great Exposition of Tantric Stages) from 22 July, 2004. The ten-day discourse is a continuation of a teaching requested by Taiwan based -Compassion and Bliss Foundation a few years back.

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, during a 10-day tour of Asia, admonished the Chinese government for not doing enough to improve its human rights record.

In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

A new report from the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) finds that the overall situation for Tibetan refugees transiting through and living in Nepal continued to deteriorate in 2003, despite the promulgation of a new written refugee policy by the Nepalese government.

The radical Indo-Tibetan film ‘We’re No Monks’ received its UK premiere in London on Sunday 11 July 2004. More than 100 people attended the screening organised by the Tibet Society of the UK and the Tibetan/Jewish Youth Exchange

"Torture is still endemic in China and therefore we do not believe it is right for Tattoo officials to engage with the Chinese Army" - Free Tibet campaign spokeswoman