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Thirty-seven Members of the United States House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of a resolution (H. RES. 157) calling on China to immediately release Phuntsok Nyidron (also spelled as Phuntsog Nyidron) and all Tibetan prisoners of conscience.

Exiled Tibetan students have found a new way to augment funds for their political activities. Recently, they organized a multi-cultural show here, which included performing traditional Tibetan folk dances.

An official of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission said yesterday that a man who claimed to be a Tibetan lama when he was arrested Thursday for soliciting a prostitute is actually an illegal migrant from Nepal.

Writer and Activist Tenzin Tsundue speaking at the valedictory of the Festival of Tibet organised by Tibetan Students' Association, Magalore and Friends of Tibet (India) in Mangalore on Wednesday.

The youth in Tibet are determined to take the Tibetan struggle for freedom to its logical end and no power of suppression or curtailing the freedom of expression by the Chinese authoritarian rule could stop Tibet from becoming a free country

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"Tibet: The Cry of the Snowlion," a three-day cultural festival on Tibet, ended with some poignant remarks on the position of Tibet, its lost glory and the attempts of young Tibetans to revive it.

Visva-Bharati University has played host to many a foreign dignitary in the past. But its choice of celebrity to inaugurate the golden jubilee celebrations of the department of Indo-Tibetan studies has raised more than a passing interest.

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A report by the American Embassy in China acknowledges the possibility that the construction of the the Golmud-Lhasa railway could have a "big impact on the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the Tibet Autonomous Region"