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A ceremony was held Sunday in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region to launch the Zhigung Hydro-electric Plant Project, the biggest of its kind in the region.

One woman's extraordinary Himalayan quest inspired an Australian documentary, writes Rebecca Urban. Many Westerners would consider living alone inside a remote Himalayan cave for 12 years to be a kind of cruel punishment.

Reports from Lhasa indicate that while Chinese and foreign tourist groups are successfully being prevented from entering the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), large numbers of individual Chinese from SARS-affected areas including Guangzhou and Beijing are arriving in the TAR

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China announced that Lekchog (Ch: Legqog), head of the Tibet Autonomous Region Government, has succeeded Ragdi (Ch: Raidi) as the Chairman of the TAR People's Congress and that Jampa Phuntsok (Ch: Qiangba Puncog) has replaced Lekchog as the TAR head.

Ngawang Sangdrol does not look old enough to be China's longest-serving female political prisoner, who has spent almost half her life behind bars. But she is only 26.

We want to extend our warmest greetings to our fellow countrymen in Tibet and in-exile and all of our friends and supporters around the world. Today marks the occasion of the 8th year that The 11th Panchen Lama, Gedun Choekyi Nyima, has been held in captivity by the Communist Chinese government.

Lakpa Lama, a monk from the Kyidong Samtenling Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, works Thursday on a sand mandala at the Hamersly Library at Western Oregon University in Monmouth.(TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ)

Almost grain by grain, they are creating beauty out of nothingness. The Tibetan Monks from Kyidong Samtenling Monastery will complete their sand mandala today at Western Oregon University’s Hamersly Library.

The Dalai Lama smiles during a function marking the end of a year celebrating the 360th anniversary of the Tibetan system of government at Dharamsala, India, Friday, May 16, 2003. (AP photo/Angus McDonald)