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Tibetan leader Dalai Lama reads through his speech during a commemorative function at Dharamsala, India, Monday, March 10, 2003. The Tibetans commemorated the 44th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day. (AP Photo/Angus McDonald)

China on Monday defended its environmental record in Tibet, outlining efforts to protect its ecology and denouncing what it called false claims by the Dalai Lama and activists that it has harmed the Himalayan region.

Tibetans in Dharamsala today observed the 44th commemoration of the Tibetan national uprising day. Hundreds of Tibetans gathered at the ground in front of the main Buddhist Cathedral (Tsuk Lhakhang) for the first time without the huge

More than 8,000 Tibetans living in various settlements in and around Dharamsala and foreigners will hold a demonstration here tomorrow to commemorate the 44th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day.

The 44th anniversary of the Tibetan national uprising day was marked in London on March 8 by hundreds of Tibetans and supporters with a rally outside the Chinese embassy and a cultural programme at the Westminster Cathedral Hall where

The Friends of Tibet (India) will commemorate the 44th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day today by exhorting Indians to boycott Chinese goods, which have recently flooded the country.

Promoting a message of independence through non-violence, three Indiana based Tibet support groups coordinated a five-day "March for Tibet’s Independence" that ends today with a major rally from 12-2pm at Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis, Ind.

China defended its brand of economic development in Tibet on Monday as environmentally friendly and said critics of its rule of the Himalayan region simply wanted to restore the old feudal society.

Today, as we commemorate the 44th anniversary of the Tibetan people's peaceful uprising in Lhasa, I pay our tribute, on behalf of the Kashag, to the brave men and women of Tibet who sacrificed their lives for our spiritual and political cause.

Our sincere greetings to fellow Tibetans in Tibet and in exile and to our friends and supporters all over the world on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the Tibetan People s Uprising of 1959.