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The new office of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of New York and New Jersey was inaugurated on November 16, 2003. Mr. Tsewang Phuntsok, ex-President of the CENTREX; Liaison Officer of South America, was invited as the Chief guest of the function.

The Indo-Tibetan Friendship Society has demanded an early solution of Tibet problem. The society urged the Indian government to take steps to stop China from do further aggression in the Chinese occupied Tibet.

The Dalai Lama is attending a unique gathering of Nobel laureates in Rome beginning on November 27, 2003, along with former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, former Polish President Lech Walesa, and former Costa Rica President Oscar Arias Sanchez.

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will meet Pope John Paul II on November 27 during a visit to Italy, his spokesman Tenzin Taklha said.

Bay Area Friends of Tibet (BAFoT) hosted several cultural and political Tibet-related activities during its 18th Annual Tibetan Cultural Fair and 20th Anniversary celebration on Saturday, November 15, 2003.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to depart Dharamsala on November 22nd for an extended visit to Kolkata, Italy, Darjeeling, Delhi, Miao, Tezu & Itanagar.

The Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts is on its tour to the Tibetan settlements in the northeastern India. The cultural troupe of the only institution started and run by the exile Tibetan administration left Dharamsala in the end of October.

As one of the holiest men in the Buddhist faith, the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje showed his religious gifts from an early age, Dorje's translator said at a Slifka Center lecture Tuesday.

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has said to preserve the degenerating human, moral and cultural values in society, spiritual education must be imparted in schools along with the modern system of education.

China has arrested four persons for trying to smuggle in a sack of Chinese pistols and explosives into the country from Tibet, Radio Nepal said quoting security sources.