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The RTYC of New York and New Jersey, Student for a Free Tibet, Tibetan Women's Association and USTC held a rally against the Nepalese Government's decision on deporting 18 Tibetans to the Chinese Authority on Monday, June 2nd 2003.

Addressing a joint press briefing with the Danish Foreign Minister, Mr. Per Stig Moller, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said that his delegation's ongoing second visit to China looks like a good start and

Last week, a posse of mountaineers and heads-of-state gathered in Kathmandu for the 50th anniversary of a great triumph: the first ascent of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa.

Eighteen Tibetan asylum-seekers forcibly repatriated from Nepal have been unexpectedly detained at a remote Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) border area after two members of the group developed symptoms of the deadly SARS virus

Kelsang, 22, says that he left his monastery in Tibet after "Chinese officials asked us to denounce the revered Dalai Lama and introduced practices in our religion that were not acceptable to us".

China today opposed "double standards" on the issue of combating illegal immigration and said that the recent repatriation of 18 Tibetans from Nepal should not be politicised.

Dorjee Damdoo Nargee trekked through the snow-covered Himalaya Mountains for 20 days in the middle of winter to escape Communist Chinese oppression in his native Tibet.

A unique travelling exhibition detailing contemporary Tibetan history and prospects for the future will be shown for the first time in London at The Air Gallery, 32 Dover Street (tube: Green Park), from June 17 to 27, 2003.

Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama laughs while leaving the Danish Foreign Ministry Wednesday June 4, 2003 in Copenhagen. The Dalai Lama, in Copenhagen to give a series of lectures, said talks with China are off to a good start. (AP Photo/John McConnico)