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Dharamsala, A veteran Tibetan political prisoner, who is currently with the Dalai Lama here in Himachal Pradesh, says he supports the spiritual leader's middle path approach to the Tibet issue.

Armenians and Tibetans, two peoples who "share the same fate," banded together last Friday in a gesture of solidarity. "The noble Tibetan people are also victims of injustice and a cultural genocide to this day, while the rest of the world looks on," said Azad Chichmanian

A nervous salesman spreads out five shawls on the bed in a Delhi hotel. He thinks he is dealing with an affluent Dubai businessman and his American wife. In fact, the shawls are contraband and his 'customers' are a trustee of the Wildlife Trust of India and an Observer reporter.

A ROW has broken out in the Church of Ireland over a request for a group of Tibetan monks to perform at an arts festival in Down Cathedral. A senior cleric, Canon Jonathan Barry, has written to the Church of Ireland Gazette

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