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A website is offering a 22,000-dollar reward for information leading to contact with the Panchen Lama, the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism, who has been missing since 1995.

Tibetans and Tibet support groups observed the forty-fifth Tibetan National Uprising Day on March 10th 2004, at Berkeley City Hall, San Francisco City Hall, the Chinese Consulate of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco, and at Union Square

Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, known as "the roof of the world," is aimed high to expand its local air service network with an increased effort made in airport construction and air-route development.

Today, the 14th March 2004, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 45th Uprising Day, over 600 people - Tibetans and their friends participated in a manifestation organised jointly by the Tibetan Community in France and Bureau du Tibet.

Approximately 100 Tibet supporters and Tibetans gathered at Miyashita Park in Shibuya, Tokyo to show their solidarity for the Tibetan Cause. Tibet Support Network, Japan (TSNJ) which comprises of more than 15 Tibet support groups from all over Japan

When Tibetans rose up against Chinese rule and were crushed 45 years ago, this town locked in the pine trees of northern India was little more than a hillside backwater.

The U.S. House of Representatives and a bipartisan criticize China's human rights commission have called on the Bush administration to promote a resolution at a United Nations conference insisting China halt its violations of human rights.

Students for a Free Tibet, a student organization at Grand Valley State University, will hold its annual concert to benefit Tibet on March 12. The show, which begins at 8 p.m., will feature six local bands and three speakers.

In the second of his two-part series on travels inside Tibet Tenzig Sonam, a Tibetan poet and film-maker currently living in New York, enters Lhasa, the capital, and finds that none of it is as he had imagined it growing up in exile in India.

Three protesters were arrested after a demonstration at the Chinese consulate in Edinburgh yesterday, over the country’s treatment of Tibet.