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Welcoming the revival of talks between China and the exiled Tibetan leadership, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has expressed hope that the imbriglio would be solved soon.

Buddhist monks have raised objections to the proposal to honour Tibetan leader Dalai Lama with the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour in India.

The ancient Tibetan system of medicine has some effect in treating AIDS, the personal physician to the Dalai Lama, Dr Tsewang Tamdin said.

The U.S. government expressed concern Friday over reports that China has detained as many as 10 Tibetans in recent months, and said it was disappointed that Chinese officials failed to tell American diplomats about the cases during human rights talks in December.

The Hopp Museum collection has shown two significant exhibitions of Tibetan art in the last 10 years. The Lamaista Sculpture exhibition had great success in 1990, showing small statues.

Tibetans will launch a fresh protest against China if Beijing does not make efforts for dialogue by June, Tibet's prime minister-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche said Tuesday.

On January 20th 2003 His Holiness the Dalai-lama announced in BodhGaya at the conclusion of the Kalachakra empowerment the appointment of Khensur Lungri Namgyel rinpoche as the 101th Ganden Tripa.

Three Tibetan refugees arrested in Nepal in December while attempting to transit to India were each given three year jail sentences by a Nepalese court on January 8, 2003. The three new prisoners, including two teenagers, join at least ten other Tibetans who remain incarcerated in Kathmandu for immigration violations.

China has jailed a Tibetan for five years in connection with the cases of two religious figures sentenced to death for a series of bomb attacks, rights groups said.

The Dalai Lama said Thursday that international pressure and rapid changes within China will eventually force Beijing to grant autonomy to Tibet. "Autonomy to Tibet under the Chinese constitution has to come sooner or later,"