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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.

Miss Tibet and Miss China posed together hand in hand today, 2nd April, in their national costumes during a press conference in Kuching city in Malaysia.

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

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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