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As global politics becomes local, Mayor David Miller is facing the squeeze. The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet and many of the world's Buddhists, arrives in Toronto on April 25 to preside over a major religious festival, called the Kalachakra for World Peace.

The Shakabpa family is happy to hear that our late Father and Grandfather, Tsepon Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa's original Tibetan passport has been recovered and is now safely in the possession of the Private Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

A request for UN intervention against China’s serious human rights violations and basic freedoms-particularly against Tibetans- was advanced March 31 during the 60th annual meeting of the UN Human Rights Commission.

Chinese state security officials have arrested a Tibetan singer and composer in a traditionally Tibetan area now part of China’s Qinghai Province, apparently because of the implicit political content of their music, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Tibetan Youth Congress (Centrex) launched the Hunger Strike unto Death in facilitation from Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of New York and New Jersey on April 2nd 2004 at 9:00 a.m. New York time.

Despite innumerable efforts by the world community and Tibetans, the socio-political situation inside Tibet continues to be poor. The execution of Lobsang Dhondup on 26 January 2003

The Italian parliament recently passed a resolution on Tibet calling for the rescinding of Tenzin Delek Rimpoche's execution and starting a new fair trial. The resolution 8-00073 was passed unanimously by the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Italian parliament.

The high level of illiteracy in Tibet came under the spotlight at the UNCHR again today with a special briefing on "Education in China and Tibet" being hosted by the International Fellowship for Reconciliation.

The Capital Area Tibetan Association and the Conservancy for Tibetan Art & Culture are honored to welcome Kyabje Denma Locho Rinpoche to the Washington DC area on April 17, 2004.

I never met the tenth Panchen Lama, who died at his monastery in Tibet in 1989, but I was introduced to his family in Beijing in the mid-nineties, and recently I went to Washington to see his daughter, Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo