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Tibet was virtually cut-off as China sent SARS prevention teams into the Himalayan region and fears grew that the killer virus could wreak havoc if it took hold there. The Xinhua news agency said China's cabinet, the State Council

RUMBLING TUMMIES: Students for a Free Tibet co-president Alexander Fergus (20) sprays T-shirts, while secretary Raamy Majeed (20) does some study during a 24-hour hunger strike on the University of Otago Union lawn yesterday.

A 24-hour hunger strike at the University of Otago to raise awareness for a missing Tibetan Buddhist is not without its creature comforts. A television (with an all-weather power plug), tent, T-shirt printing equipment and a meditation zone

A senior U.S. official says Washington's decision not to sponsor a resolution critical of China at this year's meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Commission decision was aimed at winning increasing cooperation from Beijing on its human rights record.

The changing of the guard in Beijing has brought no change at all in the repressive tactics used by China against Tibetans, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Monday.

As the 59th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) concluded it annual meeting on 25 April, another NGO written statement was made available amongst the documents. In this written statement, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation

No cases of the potentially lethal viral infection known as 'Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome' (SARS) have been recorded in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) so far, but the efforts by the authorities to prevent the disease, also known as 'atypical pneumonia'

Addressing a public talk about the situation in Tibet on 25 April in Oslo, Norway, Mrs. Kesang Y. Takla said that although the birthday of the Panchen Lama should be a happy occasion it was not so because of the sad reality of the plight of the Panchen Lama and his parents.

Picture by Biju Boro

Nobel laureate Dalai Lama blesses a child during a meeting with Tibetan refugees in Guwahati on Monday. The Tibetan spiritual head, in the city on his way to the Tawang monastery in Arunachal Pradesh