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In a major speech at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, the U.S. representative said several countries should be named as gross violators of human rights. The list of 17 countries includes Cuba, Iran, Zimbabwe, North Korea and China.

It is unlikely that Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will meet Prime Minister Paul Martin during a visit to Canada next month, Foreign Minister Bill Graham said.

His Toronto event will be held at SkyDome and in Vancouver, tickets for two spiritual teaching events held in a 4,000-seat auditorium were snapped up in 20 minutes.

On the 22nd of February 2004 the elderly former political prisoner Dawa, or 'Tsemonling' Dawa, passed away in Lhasa. Dawa personified a generation of men and women in Lhasa who from the 1980s, and throughout the 1990s

An eight-member Nepali team left for Beijing today to participate in the first session of the third Nepal-China Joint Border Inspection meeting to be held in the Chinese capital from March 25 to 26.

Chinese authorities have launched a political re-education program at an official television station in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa after it broadcast shots containing the Tibetan national flag, which is banned under Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Tsering Lhamo, half of the husband-wife team that runs Tibet Kitchen in Northwest Portland, practices traditional Tibetan healing. She says the food you eat every day is the most important medicine.

A French municipality has decided to highlight the Tibetan cause by celebrating 2004 as the Year of Tibet. The municipality of Mouans-Sartoux, located near Cannes in southern France, hoists the Tibetan national flag every year on March 10, the Tibetan uprising day.

An 8-year old Tibetan girl was crowned the queen of chessboard in Australia. According to a report received from Australia based Office of the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

One of the world's greatest rivers has been reduced to a trickle in places by a series of giant Chinese dams and engineering works which are threatening the livelihoods of up to 100 million people in south-east Asia.