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El Mercurio, a Spanish language daily from Santiago in Chile, has carried a report on the Tibet-China contact with analytical comments by Tibet and China scholars as well as officials of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile and the Chinese Government.

Australia's annual human rights talk with China, just completed, is an "absurdity" which not only fails to deliver results but helps China avoid international criticism of its human rights record, according to a leading Australian academic.

Cover of Dangerous Crossing 2002, ICT's second annual report on Tibetan refugees.

In its second annual report on Tibetan refugees, Dangerous Crossing 2002, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) finds that the increased border presence of Chinese police and China’s political influence were significant obstacles

A Taiwanese citizen who has been recognized as the reincarnation of a Tibetan Buddhist lama is free from fulfilling his military service obligations because he qualifies as an oversea Chinese, the government departments said yesterday.

Nepal and Tibet, autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China, have signed an eight-point memorandum of understanding here to promote of tourism between the two neighbours.

The National Democratic Party of Tibet has organised a series of Tibet awareness programmes in Himachal and nearby areas beginning July 7, 2003. It has held various public meetings and seminars on Tibet from the Tibetan communities of Manali to Tashi Jong.

In a sad incident, Mr. Kunsang Paljor, a former member of the assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies and a senior reporter of the Voice of Tibet radio service breathed his last this morning at 4 at Zonal Hospital, Dharamsala.

A 28-member delegation from the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), led by Vice Chairman of the TAR Government Lobsang Gyaltsen, arrived in Kathmandu for a 12-day visit to Nepal on August 5, 2003.

Pema Dorji, a Tibetan monk from the Gaden Jangtse Tsawa Khangtsen monastery in India sits in Dolma Ling, the monastery’s only U.S. center, which opened in Lebanon on Sunday (Valley News -- Jennifer Hauck)