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Custom officials and police have smashed the largest case of illegal fur smuggling in Tibet in more than half a century, the Chinese state news agency says.

Construction on the 3,345-meter Yangbajain No. 1 tunnel on the Qinghai-Tibet railway was completed Sunday in the Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China.

Eleven & twenty three of two group Tibetan refugees arrested in this week at delduldura and Birganj (border with India) for illegally entering Nepal were sent to Tibetan Refugee reception center through the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Kathmandu, today.

The parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration has expressed deep regret and shock over the sad demise of Nyima Drakpa, a political prisoner, after suffering extreme tortures at the hands of Chinese authorities.

Artistes open the awards ceremony with a song in praise of Lhamo Yangchenma. (Photo:Tenam)

Ceremony for the first Tibetan Music Awards ended Saturday amid much fanfare and jubilations. A major attraction of the 4th Free Spirit Festival, the music award is aimed at encouraging the budding artistes of the Tibetan community and giving them the due recognition for their work

The Chinese government called on the European Union (news - web sites) to lift a ban on arms sales to China which has been in place since the Tiananmen Square massacre 14 years ago, state media reported.

The European Union called Monday for continuing high-level talks with China on human rights, saying the issue is crucial to its ties with Beijing.

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.

The exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, greets photographers as he poses in the courtyard of the George V hotel in Paris, Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. The Dalai Lama is proposing that world luminaries such as former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu join forces to defuse crises such as the turmoil in Iraq. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)