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A Tibetan-American student has placed third in the Miss Photogenic competition at the 2003 Miss Tourism World contest in Venezuela, RFA’s Tibetan service reports. Tenzin Deki was a runner-up in last year’s Miss Tibet contest in Dharamsala, India.

The Chinese authorities have confirmed that the female head of the former Gyatso children’s home in Lhasa, Nima Choedron, was convicted for political reasons and is serving ten years in prison.

The Prime Minister of Slovenia Anton Rop had said he supports EU China dialogue on human rights. Mr. Rop was speaking on the Slovenian National Television in a news bulletin aired on 3 December 2003 after his return from a visit to China early this month.

They've decorated the tree outside one Cambridge shop, but not with angels and stars. Bodhi Tree, a new Tibetan emporium between Harvard and Porter squares, has bedecked its tree with Buddhist prayer flags that wave in the wind, carrying blessings far and wide.

A UN human rights expert has sharply criticised the education policy pursued in Tibet by the People’s Republic of China. Ms. Katarina Tomasevski (Croatia), the Special Rapporteur on the right to education of the UN Commission on Human Rights

Mrs. George Woodcock, known to her close friends as "Inge" passed away in Vancouver, B.C. on the 11th December 2003 after a long illness; eight years earlier her husband, Professor George Woodcock, internationally known Canadian writer, poet, critic, activist

If the Buddha had been born a woman, would future generations have known more about his intimate feelings? The sorrow he might have felt growing up without his mother -- who died during childbirth -- or the anguish he might have felt when

Tibet is hot again thanks to singing Buddhist monks. Move over, Richard Gere. The Monks of Sherab Ling Monastery were nominated this month for a Grammy Award for their Sacred Tibetan Chant album.

The Delhi High Court issued summons to the Dalai Lama and the Central Government on a suit seeking as illegal the declaration of Urgyen - Trinlay Dorje as the 17th Karmapa and his expulsion from India.

Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama returned to his headquarters here Thursday after a long foreign tour. Tibetan Buddhist clergy held special prayers in the town's main monastery to mark the occasion.