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Tibet will begin accepting foreign and domestic tour groups from July 1, after a two-month-long break forced by the Sars virus, state media said today.

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Followers of the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism feel the controversy surrounding the Karmapa issue and the Rumtek monastery in Sikkim may have something to do with Indo-China relations.

Chiru browsing on the Tibetan plateau (Photo by George Schaller courtesy TRAFFIC)

Wild animals on the Tibetan plateau that were illegally hunted to the brink of extinction just 10 years ago are beginning to recover, according to biologist Dr. George Schaller of the New York based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

China has yet again outdone itself in its legacy of terrorism against humanity—this time by forcefully deporting two weeks ago 18 Tibetans to Tibet from nearby Nepal, which otherwise was for these hopeful refugees their doorstep to the outside world, to freedom in exile.

Officials in western China and a well-connected Beijing firm are lobbying to build a new hydroelectric dam in an historically Tibetan area of Sichuan Province, despite concerns that it would harm the local environment, Radio Free Asia (RFA) has learned.

50 members of Delhi branch of Bharat Tibbat Sahyog Manch, ( BTSM ) newly formed Delhi unit of Indian Tibet Supporters, organized an 8- hours sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi today.

For more than 50 years, Tibet has been a very sensitive issue between India and China because Tibet's government-in-exile led by the Dalai Lama has its headquarters in Dharamsala.

We, the Tibetan Women's Association, are very pleased to learn the Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s official visit to China in June 2003. We sincerely hope that the Prime Minister visit will be able to achieve meaningful discussions