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Archeologists have discovered a site used by New Stone Age nomadic people at an altitude of 4,234 meters in Tibet. The site, the first of such discovery at such a high altitude, is located three kilometers to the north of Yangbajain County in Damxung County.

Eric Engman/News-Miner TURBULENT TIMES--Tibetan Lama Palden Gyatso uses a watch as a prop as he describes methods of torture he endured while a prisoner of the Chinese to a group of Monroe Catholic High School students Tuesday.

Draping the length of his unfastened watch over the microphone in imitation of a dangling body, Tibetan Lama Palden Gyatso spoke of brutal episodes of horrific torture to the high school students filling the chapel at Monroe Catholic High School Tuesday morning.

A Beijing-based Internet company has been implicated in creating a program specifically designed to spy on computers of Tibetan Government-in-Exile (TGIE) and Tibet Support Groups (TSG).

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The Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) is holding a briefing on October 31, 2003 in Washington, D.C. on Tibetan women and their roles in the Tibet movement. The briefing will feature remarks by the former Tibetan political prisoner Ngawang Sangdrol and

Amnesty International has said that Chinese repression of political dissent and religious freedom in Tibet has continued in recent months despite signs of tentative Tibetan-Chinese dialogue.

A Special Executive Magistrate ordered an interim bail without any sureties to 27 members of TYC who were remanded for judicial custody at Tihar Central Jail. These members were arrested in front of the Chinese Embassy on 24th October

Prince Charles with YOTA's executive director Linda Cruse

It was a moment of elation for the five young Tibetans who had the rare opportunity to interact with Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales who is currently on a nine-day tour of India.