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As evidence of a mounting campaign to reform the World Bank’s support of the oil and mining industries, over 300 organizations from 72 countries called on Bank President James Wolfensohn to accept and adopt the recommendations of a review that he commissioned.

Organizers of two Vancouver speaking engagements by the Dalai Lama this April have moved the appearances to larger venues because of overwhelming public response.

This story was written by the driver for the Tashi Lhunpo Monks tour. A group of Tibetan Buddhist monks traveling the United States from Tashilhunpo Monastery in southern India were met with a severe wave of religious intolerance recently in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

A Tibetan Buddhist monk named Tenzin Delek Rinpoche was arrested and prosecuted in a secret trial in China a year ago. The indictment, verdict and evidence were all kept secret.

At the wee hour of the second day, the freedom marchers woke up to a new day with rejuvenated zeal and enlivened commitment to carry forward their sacred and crucial mission

The effort to set up a regional chapter of the Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) in Kollegal Tibetan settlement in South India was quashed unexpectedly at the winter session of the 4th Local Tibetan Assembly

The Central Tibetan Administration expresses its regrets over the confusion and disturbance that took place yesterday at Dharamsala during the peace march undertaken by the Tibetan Youth Congress due to certain misunderstanding and communication gap.

The Tibetan Youth Congress in its 34 years of existence has organized various extensive, conclusive and peaceful activities for the cause of a Free Tibet.

The police today lathicharged a group of Tibetan Youth Congress peace marchers who were on the way to New Delhi to participate in Tibetan Uprising Day, to be celebrated on March 10.

"Tibetans are a naturally a happy people," says Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, special envoy of the Dalai Lama. Quite a statement considering that since the Chinese invaded and occupied Tibet in 1950, over 1,2 million Tibetans have been killed and that in 1959 the Dalai Lama