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Work has begun to clean a holy lake on the edge of a monastery in Himachal Pradesh where hundreds of fish died due to overfeeding and pollution after a gathering of Tibetan monks that included the Dalai Lama.

The Dalai Lama will come to Canada in April to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Toronto. The Dalai Lama, whose name is Tenzin Gyatso, is being honoured by the university on April 27

The Vice Chairperson of the Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies today participated in the first International Elected Women's and Equal Opportunities Expo at the Lingotto Congress Center in Turin, Italy.

Yesterday was Tibetan National Uprising Day (which commemorates the crushing of Tibetan unrest by the Chinese army on March 10, 1959) and one of the Tibetans in Mumbai was Tenzin Tsundue.

The Tibetan Community in Belgium and the Belgian Tibet Support Group organised a demonstration to commemorate the 45th Anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising day on 10th March 04 in Brussels, the Capital City of the European Union.

Events on the other side of the world a generation ago inspired a peace march Wednesday in Ithaca. About 30 people marched from the Buddhist Namgyal Monastery, at 412 N. Aurora St.

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has released a new report titled “Unjust Sentence: A Special Report on Trulku Tenzin Delek” to coincide with the 45th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day on 10 March 2004.

On March 10th, 2004, the 45th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day, former political prisoner Ngawang Sangdrol will testified before the U.S. House Committee on International Relations, as part of the hearing on human rights practices around the world.

A total of 236 local, municipal and regional councils in the Czech Republic have hoisted the Tibetan flag on 10 March, joining the Flag for Tibet campaign. This is the highest number of flagging towns and villages since 1996 when the campaign was joined by the Czech Republic for the first time.

Tibetans and Tibet supporters marks the 45 anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule that took place on 10th March 1959 in Lhasa during which thousands of Tibetans were killed.