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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)

Lhasa has been transformed in recent years

It is just after dawn in the Lhasa valley and tens of thousands of Tibetan pilgrims are streaming up a mountainside. Many have walked for days, even weeks to be here.

The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, looks skyward as he adjusts his garment before a news conference at a Paris hotel, October 13, 2003. (REUTERS/John Schults)

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday advised believers from other religions against converting to Buddhism.

A group of federal MPs is planning to protest against China's treatment of neighbouring Tibet when Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Canberra next Friday.

Dr. Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, will inaugurate the fourth International Conference of Tibet Support Groups to be held in Prague from 19-21 October 2003 in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the president

The council will foot the £16,500 bill for the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama’s visit to the Capital. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is to visit Edinburgh in June next year.