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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.

A Cochrane doctor weathered altitudes of 14,000 feet, exposure to potentially fatal diseases and having to drink yak-butter tea for one month to deliver desperately-needed health care

Determined to make a difference Victorian-based cyclist Brian Sommerfield has braved freezing temperatures in Goulburn and the dry humid heat of the north-west in his quest to raise money for the children of Tibet.

Bill Kirchner, of Medina, has learned something new about Tibetan monks since they’ve been staying with him. They love Jackie Chan movies. “They sit there and watch it and laugh and laugh and laugh,” Kirchner said.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education has issued a report criticising China for its record on provision of education to its people, and expressing particular concern about education imposed upon ‘minorities’ that denies religious

According to a report by ICT Amsterdam, the Dutch Parliament, on the eve of its 2004 budgetary debate, unanimously passed a resolution calling the government for the appointment of a EU Special Representative for Tibet along the line of the US adoption of Special Coordinator for Tibet.

Seven of the 18 Tibetans repatriated by Nepalese authorities in May were still imprisoned as of the end of September, according to former prisoners who were with them in a new prison in Shigatse.

Harvard undergraduate Megan Howard faces disciplinary action for shouting pro-Tibetan slogans during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s speech at the university this month, RFA's Tibetan service reports.