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New Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, is congratulated by outgoing President Jiang Zemin after Hu was named as his successor during a session of the National People's Congress in Beijing on Saturday March 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

After years of preparation and months of maneuvering, China finally made Hu Jintao its president on Saturday, handing power to a new generation of leaders expected to continue liberal economic policies while maintaining tight Communist Party political control.

Tenzin Bhuchung has not seen his family since 1981, the year he escaped his native country of Tibet. After his parents ensured his safety with an aunt and uncle in Mysore, India, they returned to the Chinese-occupied territory of Tibet to care for four other children and the family farm.

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A three days workshop on Waste Management and Recycling began today in Mcloed Gunj. The workshop was conducted jointly by the Department of Home (CTA) and Tibetan Welfare Office Dharamsala.

Rare and sacred treasures of Tibetan, never before seen in the Western World, will begin a national tour at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in October 2003.

When Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, arrives in Copenhagen in June for a five-day visit, he will meet with PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller.

In 1959, when Communist Chinese illegally occupied Tibet, the independent nation with centuries of written history was facing a very critical juncture and dying era in her history.

In a simple and solemn ceremony organised this morning by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet on the courtyard of the Westminster Abbey, the Dean of Westminster, Dr. Wesley Carr, lead a prayer service in memory of all the Tibetans who have died for Tibet's freedom.

Between 1997 and 2001 there was a rapid decline in the number of Tibetans in prison on political charges. The decline was due to a large number of releases and fewer detentions. However, this pattern appears to be changing.