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As required by the Tibetan Policy Act of 2002, President George Bush has directed Secretary of State Colin Powell to forward to the Congress a report on action taken by the United States to encourage dialogue between the Dalai Lama and

Callers to Radio Free Asia’s Tibetan-language hotline report that Tibetans and Chinese in the Tibetan Autonomous Region are buying traditional Tibetan medicine and incense in bulk in a bid to keep the deadly SARS virus from spreading to the remote region.

The Central Tibetan Administration started the day with prayers for a more peaceful world. As announced earlier by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a worldwide simultaneous meditation or prayer for world peace was observed today.

Tibetan music lovers will have a reason to smile in October this year. After the booming success of the first ever beauty pageant of the diaspora Tibetan community, Lobsang Wangyal Productions plan to come up with another mega event.

The sister-in-law of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, will be in town next week to speak at a fundraiser. The event will focus on the plight of Tibetan nuns who have fled persecution in their homeland.

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Former Tibetan Political Prisoner Ngawang Sangdrol arrived in Zurich, Switzerland, on May 6, 2003 for medical treatment at the invitation of the Swiss government. She was received at the airport by representatives of the Swiss Government and the Tibet Bureau in Geneva.

The organizers of a Toronto visit from the Dalai Lama next year are seeking $1-million from the city and the province to support an event expected to draw 10,000 people. The request was made yesterday when a spokesman for the Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario

Chinese authorities have tapped two new leaders of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) government and could install them at any time, Radio Free Asia (RFA) has learned. The change appears to be aimed at handing control of Tibet to officials

Revitalizing energy: Visiting Buddhist monks will conduct a Cham ceremony, the first in mid-Michigan, to revitalize spiritual energies. Seven Tibetan monks will visit to raise awareness of their imprisoned religious leader. (Photo courtesy of MSU Students for a Free Tibet)