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With two years, one month and twenty-six days left in office, the 12th Kashag met with the staff of the Central Tibetan Administration and presented its plans for the year 2004 to 2007.

A major new report released by the International Campaign for Tibet reveals the increasing threat to the survival of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet. 'When the Sky Fell to Earth: the New Crackdown on Buddhism in Tibet'

To be a Tibetan refugee is also to be a teacher, always working to increase awareness about the struggles faced by their people still living under Chinese rule, said Losang Gyatso, a Boulder artist.

An International Mongolian Festival is being held at the Tibetan Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana, from September 18 to 19, 2004 as part of its Annual World Harmony Series.

Information has reached TIN based on official Chinese sources about several cases of political imprisonment in Sichuan, Gansu, and Qinghai Provinces, and in the TAR. Chinese authorities deny that there are any 'political prisoners' in the PRC

According to the confirmed information received by Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Ngawang Woeser, one of the architects of the famous Pro-independence peaceful demonstration of 27 September, 1987 in Lhasa, was released on 18 April, 2004 from Drapchi prison.

Over 2,000 Tibetans gathered in the courtyard of a private school in a Tibetan suburb of Kathmandu to celebrate the 69th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama.

The Office of Tibet, Brussels, organised a formal official reception to celebrate the 69th Birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Nalanda Tibetan Institute based in the city of Brussels.

On Saturday 3rd July more than 230 people joined together at the Petrie Park Community Hall in the Melbourne suburb of Montmorency to celebrate World Tibet Day and His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Birthday.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 69th birthday was celebrated at The Office of Tibet, Pretoria on July 6, 2004. Function started at 12 noon by Sangsol and reciting the Words of Truth and other prayers for His Holiness’s long life.