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From next tommorow people in Mangalore are thinking of taking holidays for three days. Reason? They are excited that the Tibetan students in the city have promised them snowlions!

On 24 August, twenty-one Tibetans from settlements in India and the Himalayan regions joined eight students and professionals from Cambridge, England at the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture in Auroville.

TIN has produced a summary overview of the Tibetan population in the PRC, derived from the 2000 population census. The data available to TIN is aggregated at a provincial level only, which makes the analysis of eastern Tibet

The US government’s policy view on the Tibet issue has been broadened with a new definition of Tibetan territory. The US previously defined Tibet as the Tibet Autonomous Region, which did not take into account the Tibetan areas of Kham and Amdo

Efforts will be made to make McLeod Ganj the focus of cultural activities in the years to come, said Shri Vijai Singh Mankotia, the honourable minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation of the Himachal Pradesh government.

A congressional panel has launched a renewed attack on China's human rights record, and called on the United States government to put pressure on Beijing to improve conditions.

With the second Miss Tibet contest getting an extremely poor response, doubts have been raised on whether this event should be continued or be terminated once and for all.

A new report by a Congressionally-mandated organization has said that Tibetans lack autonomy and that repression of Tibetans continue under Chinese rule. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China has, in its 2003 Annual Report, released on October 2, 2003

The first group of more than 70 Chinese cadres to study the Tibetan language in Lhasa graduated from Tibet University in July; they are now being sent into the townships and towns around Lhasa to serve as officials.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will visit Delhi, Spain, France, Germany and the Czech Republic on a 19-day tour scheduled from October 5 to 23, 2003.