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A ten-member Indian media delegation is on a three-day visit to Dharamsala. The media tour is organised by the Delhi based India Tibet Co-ordination Office. The delegation comprised of mediapersons from various national and regional newspapers of India.

Forty-five years ago, the Dalai Lama disguised himself as a soldier and sneaked out of Lhasa where his predecessors ruled supreme for centuries, in one of the most dramatic flights of the 20th century.

Human Rights Watch challenged the United States to sponsor a resolution condemning China for alleged rights abuses at an ongoing UN meeting in Geneva.

The Dalai Lama said on Tuesday he was willing to negotiate with China on the future of Tibet but the Chinese still remained deeply suspicious.

On 12 March, the United Nations Committee which deals with racial discrimination, expressed concern about forced explusion of Tibetan refugees by the Government of Nepal.

TIN has received news that 'Notes on Tibet' (Ch: Xizang Biji), a book written by Tibetan author Oser (Ch: Weise) was banned around September 2003 by the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) government.

On a hot humid summer night, 60 people gathered at a local antiquarian bookshop in Durban to remember the March 10 anniversary when 45 years ago the citizens of Lhasa – the capital of Tibet took to the streets in protest against the Chinese occupation of their country.

The municipality of Mouans-Sartoux, near the world famous Cannes in South France, has decided to observe 2004 as the year of Tibet as a protest against the French Government's decision to observe 2004 as the Year of China.

A workshop on grassroot democracy to strengthen local assemblies began Sunday at the Ghangchen Kyishong staff mess. Organised by the Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies in conjunction with the Delhi based Tibetan Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre

The concert was started with the brief introduction from the organiser Artist Loten Namling,who advocated the need of more awareness of the dangers of aids problem in exile community as well as in tibet.