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A move is afoot to shift the relics of Xuanzang, the great Chinese traveller and scholar, from Patna museum to the newly-renovated Xuanzang memorial at Nalanda. The relics are currently kept at the Patna museum since 1957.

A proposed Buddhist retreat has prompted a religious query previously unexplored in town planning: What would Jesus do? The question arose after an international Tibetan group chose 350 acres here as a place to teach meditation and caregiving for the terminally ill.

The Himachal Pradesh Government has decided to improve the basic amenities in Mcleodganj-Dharamshala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

The 7th Central Executive Committee members are extremely delighted to announce the set up of a new Regional Chapter of TWA in Toronto/Ontario, Canada. This good news was received on the 25th of December, 03 at the CENTREX, Dharamsala as a pleasant Christmas gift

A young Tibetan refugee detained in Nepal and handed over to Chinese authorities this year has described torture and beatings by Chinese guards who demanded bribes of up to 10,000 yuan from Tibetan prisoners in exchange for their release

As a child she tended cattle at a farm before her family fled China and now, at 20, Dolma Tsering, the first Miss Tibet, is becoming an icon for young Tibetans in India, Nepal and elsewhere.

At an Internet cafe in Ngari, the most remote prefecture in western China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Dundrub, a young Tibetan man, is chatting online with a friend in Canada.

Ireland has reassured its support for improvement in Tibet’s human rights situation at a meeting between Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Tom Kitt and His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Representative in London, Kesang Takla, on December 18, 2003.

I thank the members of this Committee for giving me the opportunity to add some words to those just presented. As a visitor coming to ask something of the Irish Government, as an experienced diplomat

President Chen Shui-bian on Sunday said that there are "three countries on each side of the Taiwan Strait," following KMT Chairman Lien Chan's endorsement of his view that there are independent countries on each side across the strait.