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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.

In the wake of recent media reports about a proposed visit of Tibetan delegation to Tibet in March this year, speculations are rife in Dharamsala, the exile Tibetan headquarters since the brutal suppression of Tibet by the PLA troops.

Tibetan parliamentarians (from left) Deputy Chair Dolma Gyari and Venerable Tsering Phuntsok, at ICT's February 10 roundtable on Tibetan democracy.

On February 10 the International Campaign for Tibet sponsored a roundtable on Tibetan Democracy at its office in Washington, D.C. Two visiting Tibetan parliamentarians, Deputy Chair Dolma Gyari and Venerable Tsering Phuntsok, led the discussion

The annual report of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy says Chinese atrocities in the occupied Tibet continued in 2002 when an activist, Lobsang Dhondup, was hanged.

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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour today to present some petitions with regard to the issue of Tibet. March 10 marks the 44th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising in occupied Tibet where hundreds of thousands of Tibetans were slaughtered by the People's Liberation Army of China.

The image of a beaming eighty three-year-old elderly lady coming out of an optician’s room was a sight well worth watching. In an effort that is purely ‘service to the people oriented’, TYC Kathmandu in association with an INGO that wishes

China has executed 81 Tibetan political prisoners in the past 16 years and another 208 Tibetans are in detention awaiting the same fate, a human rights group said today.

Seven Tibetan Buddhist monks employed droning chants, clashing cymbals, ringing bells and blowing horns as they prayed for world peace Saturday morning in this desert resort town.