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The Chinese Tibetan Medicine Database Series, jointly developed by the Environmental Science Information Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Nuodi Tibetan Medicine Research Association under the Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology

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Once a calm city that has never seen any riot, Lhasa was brought up in flames on March 10, 1959. A peaceful land is brought up in flames, its people killed, their houses burnt, properties seized, women raped and the most devastating of all, a nation wiped off from the world map.

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Richard Gere plans to build a spa to encourage others to follow Buddhism. The 53-year-old Chicago star - a close friend of the Dalai Lama - believes his proposed Spa Tibet complex could boost awareness of the religion and its spiritual home.

At first it might seem like an exercise in futile feel-good cultural diplomacy, presenting three seemingly unrelated international acts on the same bill, artists separated by culture, language and custom.

On April 27 this year, South Africans will be celebrating Freedom Day, followed by World Children's Day on the 28th. Whilst we are all concerned about the innocent children of Iraq suffering the horrors of war

The budget session of the 13th Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies ended. In his concluding speech, the Chairperson, Mr Pema Jugney congratulated the members for having discussed a wide range of issues in a short period of time.

Agenda item 9 entitled: "Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world." European Union: By the Ambassador of Greece, European Presidency on behalf of the European Union and

The 7th General Body Meeting of Tibetan Women's Association (TWA), the only Tibetan women's NGO in the exile diaspora, began today at the main hall of Tibetan Medical and Astro Institute in Dharamsala.