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The People's Republic of China in a written comment transmitted to the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights (dated 10 December 2003) has accused the Commission's expert on education for making "biased and irresponsible" comment on the status of education in Tibet.

Patna, Hollywood actor Richard Gere is producing a film on Tibet to espouse the cause of the Tibetans.

Who will lead the Tibetans, struggling for over four decades for freedom, after the Dalai Lama? On his death, a Dalai Lama's soul is supposed to be reincarnated in another being.

Four weeks before the world-popular religious and exiled Tibetan secular leader starts an 18-day, three-city visit, the Prime Minister, the premiers of British Columbia and Ontario, and the mayors of Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto

Lobsang Andrugsurba was carried out of Tibet when she was just a year old. Now she, along with many other Tibetans brought up in Canada, struggle to preserve her heritage.

Britain yesterday raised the issue of Tibet at the High Level Segment of the 60th session of the Commission on Human Rights on Tibet. Mr. Bill Rammell, MP and Foreign & Commonwealth Office Parliamentary Under-Secretary Of State, United Kingdom

The septuagenarian former political prisoner Takna Jigme Sangpo had spent the longest term in Chinese prison as a political prisoner. After his release on medical parole, he spoke at various forums on the issue of Tibet and human rights in China.

Aspirants to the annual Fulbright scholarship programme faced a blow today as the High Level Scholarship Committee in a meeting of 9 March decided to disallow candidates with masters degree from the preliminary selection round.

The leader of an Allendale church that interrupted a performance of Tibetan Monks says he has no reason to apologize. As 24 Hour News 8 told you Tuesday night, the group that sponsored the concert wants the church to apologize and hand over a few hundred dollars.

Normal operating procedure for Over Lunch calls for the interviewee to choose the restaurant. However, my guest this week is based in New York, and in one passage from his new book I came across this sentence.