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The Central Tibetan Administration expressed its deep regret over the demise of Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello while serving in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

Your Excellency, I am shocked and deeply distressed that the UN Office in Baghdad has been attacked and that many people, including Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN Envoy in Iraq have been killed and many others injured by a bomb blast.

The rarely seen boy endorsed by China as the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism has completed an 11-day tour of northwestern China, state media said Wednesday.

Chinese authorities have unexpectedly rejected a request from the Tibetan government in exile for a group of prominent exiled Tibetans to visit China, including the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

According to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), the Tibetan nomads from Golog and Yushul “Tibet Autonomous Prefecture” (“TAP”) face risk of relocation and threat to their traditional nomadic culture.

Aftermath of floods in Yushu. Photo : The Jinpa Trust

Tibetans who lost their livestock and livelihoods in snowstorms in Qinghai province in 1995-7 have now lost their homes due to the most severe storms that have been reported in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

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Unless you read the label, nothing about this lovely new semisoft cheese suggests that it comes from Tibet. Or that it is made from yak milk. The cheese resembles Gruy่re, though a little less nutty and a bit muskier.

illustration: Insu Lee