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Professional stuntman Gary Connery is led away by a police officer after base jumping from the top of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, central London, Friday May 9, 2003. Activists climbed the 170 foot tall column early Friday in a stunt organised by the Act for Tibet organisation, hanging up a banner of the Dalai Lama. Connery was arrested by police following the jump. Photo by Alastair Grant

Residents of Lhasa awoke Thursday morning to see their city blanketed in white as the unseasonable snowfall covered poplars and willows in Potala Palace Square in this capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

Workers at a medicine factory pack pills made from unique Tibetan herbs. Sales of traditional Tibetian drugs have tripled after the outbreak of SARS.(Photo by Frederic J Brown)

SARS fears have caused sales of a traditional Tibetan drugs believed to strengthen of the human immune system to triple, an official at a Tibet-based pharmaceutical company revealed.

A medical worker checks body temperatures of passengers with an infrared camera at Gonggar Airport in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Thursday, May 8, 2003. Security measures have been taken in Tibet including checks for all those in or out of the autonomous region with an aim to prevent the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). (AP Photo/ Xinhua, Jue Guo)

Even as a senior Chinese official warned Tibet against a possible onslaught by the Sars epidemic, the first infra-red fever detector has been installed at the Gongga International Airport in Lhasa in an effort to contain the

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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.