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Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims from home and abroad have converged on the banks of the Rewalsar lake to take part in the two-day Tsechu Fair — the Buddhist Kumbh beginning from tomorrow — which is being celebrated after 12 years.

China has reacted angrily to criticism of its human rights record from the United States, warning that it could affect Sino-U.S. ties. The annual State Department report stated that China was "backsliding" on its human rights obligations

A short film festival will open a window on Tibet this weekend. The first of six films about Tibet will unspool tonight at 7 p.m., to start Focus on Tibet, a two-day festival organized by the Canada Tibet Committee.

"The Central Tibetan Administration welcomes the news, as reported by the Associated Press, that Phuntsog Nyidrol who was imprisoned in 1989 at the age of 22 for her vocal expression of her political views has been released from prison," said Kalon Thubten Lungrig

The Freedom March organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress is participated by over 80 participants from 22 different places. The March, which started from Thekchen Choling, Dharamsala on the 11th of February

"Whether giving Beijing the Olympics was right or wrong it is too late to worry, it is a done deal. The question now is can China make it a celebration of a coming of age or reduce it to a base mockery of the whole Olymoic ideal."

Phuntsog Nyidrol, one of Tibet's most prominent political prisoners and the longest serving female political prisoner, was reportedly released from Lhasa's Drapchi Prison Tuesday, Feb. 24. Nyidrol was due to be released in March 2005.

A benefit concert offering a potpourri of acts playing for a cause can be a dicey proposition. In essence, the variety show format where each musician gets two tunes before getting the hook carries with it the potential for mishap.

A hundred years ago, under the guise of power politics, one of the darkest chapters in British imperial history was written in blood in the snows of Tibet. It was a clash between the greatest and most technologically advanced power in the world and one of the weakest

The last of 14 Tibetan "singing nuns" was released Thursday from a Chinese prison, granted a sentence reduction after nearly 15 years behind bars, a U.S. activist said.