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Chaksampa's concert in the Twin Cities on August 30, 2003 was a performance to remember. The San Francisco Tibetan Music and Opera group delighted an enthusiastic audience of 350 people of all ages.

The volumes resemble barrel slats -- about 3 feet long and 6 inches wide. The paper, edges rounded, looks like the skimpiest gossamer but is surprisingly sturdy, even silky to the touch. The unbound

San Francisco - During the week leading up to the visit by his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the University of San Francisco will exhibit a replica of the Tibet Museum in Dharamsala, India, the seat of the Dalai Lama in exile.

Once again, the indigenous communities of the Tibetan Plateau have had their voice and concerns silenced. There will be no Tibetans at the World Parks Congress (WPC) which opens in Durban, South Africa on 8 September 2003.

The Tibetan Community in Switzerland and Liechtenstein celebrated the 43rd anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day on Saturday, 30th August at Rikon near Zurich. Over 600 Tibetans were present on this occasion.

PEDALLING FOR PEACE: 56-year-old Brian Summerfield is hoping to spread his message for a free Tibet to as many schoolkids as possible while he is in the Highlands.

Brian Summerfield will never forget the four words that changed the course of his life forever. It was on a backpacking trek through Tibet in 1997 when an infant boy, draped in rags, ran up to him and slipped a note under his arm.

Cover of ICT's 70-page report "Crossing the Line: China's Railway to Lhasa, Tibet"

"Crossing the Line: China’s Railway to Lhasa, Tibet," a new in-depth report from the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), finds that the railway China is constructing across the Tibetan Plateau to Lhasa is being built mainly

A high-altitude railway China is building to Tibet is a ruse to increase control over the region, and does not even enjoy the support of Beijing's Ministry of Railways, US activists said here.