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The execution on January 26 of Lobsang Dondrub, a Tibetan convicted of crimes relating to several bombing incidents in China in 2001 and 2002, and the parallel conviction of Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche

Free Tibet Campaign, as part of the International Tibet Support Network (ITSN) - a global coalition of more than 120 Tibet organisations worldwide - has called on the Greek Foreign Minister Mr Georgios Papandreou to raise the cases of Lobsang Dhondup

Promoting a message of independence through non-violence, three Indiana based Tibet support groups are coordinating a "March for Tibet's Independence" from Bloomington to Indianapolis.

China implemented "highly repressive policies" in 2002, using the global war on terror and a pivotal Communist Party Congress as excuses to violate human rights, a U.S.-based rights watchdog said Tuesday.

Tibetan monks of Gaden Shartse will be in Klamath Falls Friday through Sunday for a series of programs at Oregon Institute of Technology and other Klamath Falls sites.

A chance meeting will result in a series of weekend "chants" meetings. Last summer, Coralee Whitsett, who raises yaks and is promoting a Tibetan Conservancy for Nomadic Culture & Yak, was displaying her animals at a Tibetan festival.

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As an indication of increasing Chinese interest in Tibetan Buddhism, Hong Kong University is organizing a lecture series entitled "Inside Tibetan Buddhism" that will last from February 15 until June 7, 2003.

Relations with Tibet took a healthy step forward recently with the Jan. 20 launch of the Taiwan-Tibet Exchange Foundation, a nongovernmental agency charged with handling relations with the Tibetan government-in-exile.