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The University of California Press has just published the biography of well known Tibetan political leader Bapa Phuntsok Wangyal (Spelt variously as Bapa Phuntso Wangye, Bapa Phuntsok Wanggyal, etc.).

To guard against frequent hacking of its documents, the Tibetan government-in-exile has decided to make increasing use of other means of communication, like fax, and also to delink its key computer terminals from the Internet.

Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, has now access to Tibetan system of medicine, which diagnoses diseases by listening to the ebb an flow of blood.

China has approved an unofficial visit by five delegates close to the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, by early July, RFA’s Tibetan service reports.

Results of the European Parliament elections held earlier this week show that 17 persons from the 31-member European Parliament (EP) Intergroup for Tibet are returning to the European Parliament.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to visit South Florida and Puerto Rico from 19 to 25 September. This will be his second visit to Miami since 1999.

Construction of the longest tunnel on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Line has been completed. The 3,345-meter-long tunnel, located about 80 kilometers from Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, was built at a place at an altitude of 4,264 meters above the sea level.

Much before the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) here could respond to the Chinese White Paper on Tibet, an unidentified agency reportedly hacked the computers of the CTA and made public the contents of the draft, which was being kept a top official secret.

The Tibetan government-in-exile has pinned hopes on the two-member delegation which is likely to visit China and Tibet on behalf of the cabinet and the Dalai Lama.

Although there was a standing ovation when Hungarian President Ferenc Mádl and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao shook hands after signing seven bi-lateral agreements, the Chinese visit was marred when a Chinese diplomat attacked peaceful demonstrators