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Some members of Taiwan Tibet Exchange Foundation, a non-governmental organization based in Taipei, are in Dhatramsala on a three-day visit. The purpose of their visit is to inaugurate an ambulance vehicle donated to the Department of Health by a Taiwanese sponsor.

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has lamented that the situation in Tibet was yet to improve though a good beginning had been made in resolving the vexed issue with the re-establishment of contacts with Beijing since September last year.

Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest non-governmental and national movement organization in the Tibetan community was represented by its Secretary International Relations Mr. Jamyang Choephel at the 60th session of United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) in Geneva.

To mark the second anniversary of Tulku Tenzin Delek’s arrest and in support of the TYC organized indefinite hunger strike in New York, Regional Tibetan Youth Congress Dharamshala today took out in the street by holding a candle light vigil.

Today (7th April, 2004) marks the sixth day of the Tibetan Youth Congress led indefinite hunger strike outside the United Nations headquarters. The three determined Tibetan hunger strikers, though loosing their weights

Hundreds of people from around the world gathered today at the annual meeting of the UN Human Rights Commission demanding that China meet international standards of human rights and due process in the case of the well known and highly respected Tibetan lama, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche.

The Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) here today took out a protest march against the passing of death sentence on Trulku Tenzin Delek, a Buddhist teacher, by the Chinese authorities in Tibet, on April 7 , 2002.

Today marks the sixth day of the Tibetan Youth Congress's (TYC) indefinite hunger strike outside the United Nations headquarters. Ms. Dolma Choephel, Mr. Gyatso, and Mr. Sonam Wangdu have not eaten since Friday, April 2 and do not plan to until the United Nations meets their demands.

A resident of Ladakh has started a tough prostration, popularly known as "Gochak", for world peace. Starting from the region's main city Leh, 29-year old Rigzen Wangyal would prostrate over 1,200 kms before reaching Dharamsala, home to hundreds of Tibetans living-in-exile, three years from now.

George W. Bush has met him. So has Tony Blair. And so have the prime ministers, presidents and chancellors of many other leading Western nations. But Canada's prime ministers shy away from meeting the Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize winner.