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Tenzin Deki, Miss Tibet Pageant-2002 runner-up, will represent Tibet in the Miss Tourism World-2003 to be held in Valencia, Venezuela in Latin America this month. She is one of the 59 contestants who will participate in the pageant

China on Monday issued its first ever list of "terrorist" groups, blaming them for a series of bombings and assassinations and calling for international assistance to wipe them out.

On December 12th Jetsun Pema la the, President of Tibetan Children's Village Schools spoke to a small group of Tibetans on the importance of Education. The program was sponsored and organized by office of Tibet and Tibetan Women's Association of New York.

Despite a sharp fall in the number of foreign tourists to Tibet, dubbed "the roof of the world," the remote Himalayan region hosted 915,945 visitors in the first 11 months of this year, up 8.3 per cent over the same period last year.

Tibetans and their Canadian supporters flocked to Canada's national capital from Toronto and Montreal today to mark the visit of Chinese Premier Jiabao Wen. Wen travelled to Ottawa to foster enhanced business relationships between the People's Republic of China and Canada

While his daughter, Uma, was busy battling Lucy Liu with a samurai sword in "Kill Bill" on multiplex screens across the city, Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman engaged in another kind of battle on a recent Saturday night in the Great Hall of Cooper Union.

There is a saying in the Himalayas, that "if man is to have a future at all, he must understand himself and his own past." Maybe that is why I keep returning to the Himalayas: facing the highest

More people in the Northwest are turning to a non-Western religious tradition. They are looking for nirvana by practicing the teachings of Buddhism.

He was 60 years old, single, and a very ordinary man. His last job was cooking and cow herding. There was absolutely nothing special about him, and he has left nothing noteworthy behind.

As you make your final plans for ringing out those Boycott bells this holiday season, remember that there is only one way left for us to halt, or at least affect China's population transfer into Tibet and the myriad