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The European Union on Tuesday expressed concern at China's "extensive use" of the deathpenalty and said that torture, arbitrary arrests and religiousrepression were widespread.

Ngawang Sangdrol, the Tibetan political prisoner who obtained a Chinese exit visa last week to seek medical treament abroad, told RFA that Chinese authorities didn't officially inform her that she was to leave for the United States until just before she boarded a Chicago-bound airliner.

The Tibetan lamas of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will do several regional performances that include mandala sand painting at the University of Wyoming Union in April. In 1999, Ben Jennings founded a chapter of Students For A Free Tibet at the University of Wyoming.

The Sangh Parivar’s expansion plan has a new target — the Buddhists. The RSS has launched a campaign to ‘‘reach out to four crore Buddhists inhabiting the length and breadth of Himalayas, 1.25 crore of them in India — from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh.’’

TIBET, TIBET—A PERSONAL HISTORY OF A LOST LAND by Patrick French HARPERCOLLINS PAGES: 333

Tibet is a cause for Patrick French and that makes it all the more remarkable that this book is not part of what he describes as "the white noise of foreign sympathy". The book is based on French’s latest trip to Tibet and in preparing

The 2002 Miss Tibet, 20 year-old Dolma Tsering, will participate in the Miss Tourism Intercontinental Beauty Contest being organised at Kuching in Malaysia. According to Mr Lobsang Wangyal

A Tibetan nun who was China's longest-serving female political prisoner traveled to the United States Friday, a U.S.-based activist said. Ngawang Sangdrol flew to the United States accompanied by a U.S. diplomat, said John Kamm

Switzerland could be the venue for dialogue between China and Tibet, a Swiss MP has said. "Time has come that there should be a substantial dialogue between the Dalai Lama and China.

Takna Jigme Sangpo, one of the most determined and well known human rights defenders in Tibet, will testify at the 59th UN Commission on Human Rights at the invitation of Dutch-based International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR)