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South African mining major Gold Fields may have been behind Australian mining junior Sino Gold's decision to halt exploration activities at what was meant to become the first foreign-owned gold mine in Chinese-occupied Tibet.

MP Tom Brake has called upon Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet with the exiled leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama. Responding to reports the Dalai Lama has been unable to secure an audience with Mr Blair on his forthcoming visit to Britain

The World Movement for Democracy will hold its third Assembly beginning tomorrow. Kasur Lodi Gyari, Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, will deliver a keynote address at the Assembly in Durban, South Africa.

Three Tibetan refugees, including one minor, were handed over to Chinese border police by Nepalese officials at the Friendship Bridge border post at Dram on 13 January, according to ICT sources in the area.

A senior State Department official said on January 29, 2004, that the United States is "seriously considering" sponsoring a resolution on China's human rights practices at the forthcoming UN Human Rights Commission session in Geneva.

The storybook "Tibet Through the Red Box" describes the fascinating, revelatory, at times harsh journey of a traveling Czech filmmaker lost in the Himalayas in the late 1950s.

The Land's End Chamber Ensemble presents King Gesar by Peter Lieberson, narrated by Michael Hope, as part of the High Performance Rodeo. Performances are today at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 9:30 p.m., and Sunday at 7:30 p.m., at the Engineered Air Theatre at the Epcor Centre.

During a Standing Committee session of the Qinghai Provincial People's Congress, on 14 January 2004, the former Party deputy secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and alternate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Yang Chuantang

There has been a shift in personnel at the United Front Work Department, the Party office that forms alliances with non-mainstream sectors of society such as ethnic groups, religious practitioners and intellectuals and is responsible for hosting visits of the Dalai Lama’s Envoys.

The Internet has added a new element of tension to the already strained relations between the Tibetan government-in-exile here and China.