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For the past two weeks, Cornell's East Asia Program has been collaborating with Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) in the yearly "Ithaca-Cornell Tibet Weeks" event. The highlight of this week occurred Wednesday evening at Anabel Taylor Hall as world-renowned Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso

The Beastie Boys (Photo: TRA)

As the Beastie Boys drift towards middle age, Adam Yauch tells the 'Taipei Times' why they're bringing the Tibet cause to Taiwan, and even a little bit about the music. I call up the Tokyo hotel, give the desk clerk the correct alias

A Tibetan monk wore a dust mask during a pilgrimage to Bodh Gaya, the site of the Buddha's enlightenment in India. The Tibetan Photo Project offers the first photographs created by Tibetans of their culture endangered by 52 years of brutal rule by the Chinese government. Tenzin Wangden Andrugtsang photo.

The Tibetan Photo Project started during the 2000 Mendocino Music Festival when Joe Mickey, a professional photographer, teacher and sports editor for The Mendocino Beacon and the Advocate-News, was introduced to a sponsorship program for monks living in exile in southern India.

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The fall of Baghdad happened so quickly that no one had time to come up with an antiwar song that spoke to our doubts and fears and resentments of the military-industrial complex. No "Masters of War," not even a "Fixin' to Die Rag."

From left, "Freddy," concert organizer, Legislator Hsiao Bi-khim, Chen Sheng, singer, and Lennon Hsu, singer from Tizzy Bac, show off their Tibetan Freedom Concert tattoos on their fists during a press conference in Taipei yesterday. (Peter Mah , Taiwan News)

Squashing rumors of a possible pullout, the famous hip-hop trio Beastie Boys is set to headline the Tibetan Freedom Concert this Sunday at the Sungshan Cigarette Factory in Taipei. This year's show marks the 10th concert for the event since 1996 and its first time to be held in Taiwan.

Tibetans in Lhasa and other areas of Tibet are talking about an imminent visit not only by envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, but by the Dalai Lama himself, according to Radio Free Asia Tibetan service.