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Westminster Swathed in soft gold and crimson robes, the 70-year-old shuffles over gleaming wooden floors in the prayer room of Orange County's first Tibetan Buddhist Center.

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Ms. Ngawang Sangdrol, a former Tibetan political prisoner had a hard time concluding the tale of tortures she suffered in the hands of Chinese police in Chinese prisons in Tibet for 11 years in only a couple of hours at the Tibet House, New York on September 27, 2003.

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.

Tibet, Tibet. The title of Patrick French's latest book intrigued me. Vaguely suggestive of a biblical lament, it also hinted at a kind of patient reproach, of the sort that Sir Isaac Newton is said to have dished out to his pet dog

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Kalon Thupten Lungrig, Minister for Religion & Culture as well as Education in the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, paid a visit to the Tibet House in New York City on September 28th 2003. Kalon Lungrig addressed the Tibetan people who were gathered at the Tibet House.