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An eight - member delegation from Tibet Autonomous Region headed by Jampa Phuntsok is currently on a visit to Kalmyk Republic. Accompanied by Liu Guchang, Ambassador of People's Republic of China to Moscow, and four other embassy staff

A group of 10 Tibetans and supporters peacefully protested today when the olympic torch came to Lausanne. They shouted slogans and displayed a banner saying "Athens YES – Beijing NO! Free Tibet".

KFC has dropped previously announced plans to place restaurants in Tibet, but the decision was unrelated to a letter from the Dalai Lama saying the "corporation's support for cruelty and mass slaughter violate Tibetan value."

Buddhist citizens of the Russian Republic of Kalmykia are dismayed that this year also they will not be able to receive teaching from their spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Jampa Phuntsok (Ch: Qiangba Puncog), Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government, is heading an eight-member delegation on a five day visit to the Kalmyk Republic in the Russian Federation. The delegation arrived in Elista on June 21 and is scheduled to depart on June 25, 2004.

In the early 1990s, Rebecca Redwood French spent several years living in India and Tibet, learning firsthand from Tibetans the intricacies of a legal system that was, prior to China's invasion, based primarily on Buddhist principles.

China today said it was against Dalai Lama's visit to Russia particularly after Moscow's reluctance to allow him to visit the country. ''The Russian government, in particular the Foreign Ministry, has asked the Dalai Lama

National security concerns seem to have delayed the reopening of Nathula, the pass in Sikkim through which trade was traditionally conducted between Tibetans and Indians. India and China had agreed last year to resume trade through this route

The Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet, will make a five-day trip to Mexico City in October, members of the Mexican Buddhist community announced Thursday.

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has told the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food chain to stay out of Tibet over alleged cruelty to animals, an animal rights group said Thursday.