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Four Tibetan youngsters handed over to the Chinese authorities by Nepal after crossing the border illegally have remained in a detention center in the Tibetan town of Shigatse since their arrival in August, RFA's Tibetan service reports.

A Tibetan soldier lost his life while defending Indian borders on October 11. Kelsang Dorjee, 24, a Tibetan soldier of Vikas III, was stationed with 14 Corps at Battalic Sector, near the Line of Control.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: A group of Victorian MPs are vowing to push ahead with a pro-Tibet advertising campaign, during the visit next week to Australia of the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, despite what they describe as "intimidating" behaviour of a senior Chinese official based in Victoria.

"Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion" doesn't pretend to be objective. It's less a documentary than a cry of outrage -- a series of exotic images that slowly turn horrifying. The focus is the Chinese occupation of Tibet

The attempts of the Dharamsala based Tibetan administration headed by His Holiness the Dalai lama to create a conducive atmosphere for dialogue with Beijing is threatened by a man who gave false information to the People’s Republic of China about plans of violent activities of the Tibetan administration.

Mr. Abdelfattah Amor (Tunisia), the Special Rapporteur on the freedom of Religion or Belief of the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), in a report to the 58th session of the UN General Assembly

A new tool of fighting repression and hunger, according to Students for a Free Tibet, is the repression of hunger. On Wednesday, SFT concluded a 14-day fast with a Day of Action in protest of the imprisonment of two Tibetan nuns.

The International Union of Socialist Youth in corporation with Rashtra Seva Dal and Yuva Janata Dal of India facilitated the whole conference of Asia Pacific meeting of IUSY in Mumbai from 10-12 Oct 2003.

John Howard with Hu Jintao earlier this year (AP file)

Just days before Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives, the Chinese embassy is embroiled in a political row amid claims it is trying to gag MPs wishing to speak out over the sensitive Tibetan issue.