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Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) is organizing the Tibetan Youth Leadership Training Program from 2nd January 2004-6th January 2004 at Dickyi Larsoe Tibetan Settlement, Bylakuppe, South India.

Liaowang Xizang, the Chinese-language journal published from Washington, D.C., has discussed the changing perception of the Dalai Lama in the Chinese community, in its latest issue (Issue # 5), mailed to subscribers in December 2003.

Forget about luggage-laden guests, bellhops and martini-sipping barflies. This week at the Loews Annapolis Hotel, the main attraction was slightly out of the ordinary - a group of nine Tibetan monks and more than a million grains of sand.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to depart Dharamsala on January 2nd for an extended visit to Delhi, Chandragiri, Warora, Bhandara, Mainpat, & Sarnath.

Splendid China, the controversial theme park in Florida charged with spreading Chinese propaganda, has announced that it will close operations from December 31, 2003 citing "continued downturn in the tourism economy."

Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Administration, has been misquoted in a wire service story filed by the Press Trust of India from Panipat on 28 December 2003.

Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa of the exile Tibetan administration yesterday inaugurated a rural health proggramme called "Arogya Sewa" in Gadh Chiruli, a village near Nagpur, Maharasthra.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama began teaching the full text of Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara (Bodhisattva’s way of life) at the request of South Korea’s Jonnam Yeosucity Dukchungdong Sukchen Temple.

A Tibetan monk who endured three decades of imprisonment and torture for resisting Chinese rule will be in Tucson early next month as a guest of Amnesty International.

Prime Minister of Tibet government in exile Samdong Ripoche has said that Tibet was ready to accept the sovereignity of China if the Chinese government willing to recognise Tibet as an autonomous state on the pattern of Hongkong.