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Beauty queens often trot out well-worn pledges to work for world peace, but the first Miss Tibet showed there may be some truth to the line when she was seen chatting to Miss China at a pageant on Tuesday.

Divorcing Tibet from politics is like trying to breathe without using your lungs; with the Chinese government exiling the Dalai Lama, prohibiting access and systematically erasing the culture, it is an issue you have to deliberately neglect.

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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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The annual Shoton carnival began yesterday amid much fanfare at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, which was established in the sixties to preserve and promote the unique performing arts of Tibetan culture.

Though top government leaders have indicated that they will meet with Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama during his visit to Denmark in June, the government will not support the Tibetan government's request for a special EU representative for the region.

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.