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Dear Prime Minister, We write to you about your forthcoming visit to China and Hong Kong to urge that human rights issues be prominent on your agenda when you meet with President Hu Jintao and other senior officials.

The authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region have stepped up the implementation of family planning policy with the despatch of 64 specially equipped vehicles to be used in different counties as mobile clinics.

Mr. Anthony Cary, Chief of the Cabinet of EU Commissioner Patten, received Ms. Ngawang Sangdrol at the European Commission.

Beginning July 26, China Southern Airlines will open flights from Guangzhou to Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, via Shangri-La in Yunnan Province.

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Composer Philip Glass, opera vocalist Jessye Norman, experimental jazz act Kronos Quartet and Native American flautist R. Carlos Nakai are among the acts slated to perform at a Sept. 21 charity event at the Lincoln Center in New York.

Tibet's government-in-exile Monday urged China to rethink its developmental projects in the region as they would have an adverse effect on the environment. Releasing a "white paper" on the state of the environment in Tibet

China's central government has ordered the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) to sack its foreign-educated Tibetan tourist guides and replace them with Chinese graduates, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports. The order affects hundreds of Tibetans educated in India or Nepal.

The recent release of a Tibetan activist is welcome, but Chinese authorities should stop secret trials of other Tibetans, Human Rights Watch said today. Tserang Dondrup was released on July 11 after a year in custody, but little is

With the thaw in the otherwise strained Sino-Indian relations following the visit of PM A.B. Vajpayee to Beijing last month, the Tibetan government-in-exile at Dharamsala has desired that the process of establishing direct contact with the Chinese authorities be pursued further.