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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.

Over eight thousand people gathered in the heart of Amsterdam on Saturday to take part a Tibetan freedom concert condemning repression in Tibet and the death penalty: "Save Tibet Now!".

As the seventh session of the Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies began today for some grueling days of debates and discussions in a newly renovated hall the deputies today gathered with a renewed energy to test the Kashag's budgetary accountability for the new fiscal year.

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.