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Karma Tsomo will combine Tibetan traditions with her new American life as she celebrates the Fourth of July today with her family. Her menu includes hot dogs, a favorite with her teenage daughters, and momo, tasty little dumplings filled with meat or vegetables.

Tibetans and Tibet supporters in Paris celebrated the 69th Birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday at the Pogoda, Bois de Vincenne, the vast city garden which is the usual venue of big Tibetan events.

Nepal has asked the neighbouring communist republic founded by Mao Zedong for help in putting down a rebellion by leftists who call themselves Maoists.

For the first time in history, the famous Blue Beryll - a set of 79 medical paintings completed 300 years ago in Tibet - has been recreated, brought to the West, and will be on exhibit TIME-TIME July 23rd at Tibet House, 22 West 15th Street.

For two years after Lin Yiqin was sent to eastern Tibet's Nyingtri country as the prefecture's Communist party deputy secretary, he suffered chronic stomach problems.

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will not take part in an international culture festival in Spain because his doctors have advised him to rest after a punishing travel schedule.

Panchsheel, an agreement for mutual co-existence between India and China, was Nehru's brain child. It encapsulated the Indian Prime Minister's vision of a united and properous future for the newly-colonized nations of the Third World.

A new CD "Sacred Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas" (OgreOgress productions, USA, 2004) containing chants by monks of the Tashi Lhunpo monastery is being released on July 6, 2004 to coincide with the 69th birthday of the Dalai Lama.

It is hard not to share the joy of countless Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims at first seeing the sometimes cobalt-blue, sometimes aquamarine waters of Lake Manasarovar - especially after four gruelling days along the rutted dirt track known officially as China's National Highway 219.

European Tibet supporters have staged their opposition to the 2008 Beijing Games as the Olympic Torch Relay leading up to the August 2004 Athens Games passes through European cities.