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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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India's remote northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh urged the federal government to improve infrastructure along the border with China to meet any security threat from its neighbour.

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PBS is broadcasting the story of the restoration of an ancient Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Mustang (a kingdom within Nepal bordering Tibet) on February 18, 2003. The documentary, Lost Treasures of Tibet, produced by Nova

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.

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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.