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You won't find McDonald's in Lhasa, but you can order a yak burger on a sesame bun at the Hard Yak Café. Even the french fries are crisp. Should you prefer Tibetan dining, try the Himalayan Restaurant across the hall.

Thirty-two Tibetans detained in Tihar jail on January 30 for demonstrating outside the Chinese embassy were released yesterday evening. They had been on hunger strike for three consecutive days since their detention.

A Tibetan refugee living in India holds a placard condemning the recent execution of a Tibetan, during a 24 hour protest hunger-strike in Bombay January 31, 2003. The hunger-strikers were protesting against the execution of Lobsang Dhondup, convicted by China of setting off bombs and inciting terrorism. Despite protests from international rights groups, Dhondup was executed on Sunday. Photo by Arko Datta

Participants in ICT's 2002 TYLP in Washington, D.C.

ICT-Europe will hold the inaugural Tibetan Youth Leadership Program in Brussels, Belgium, from 4 July – 9 July 2003. Designed for young Tibetans in Europe, this exciting program will see experts from around the world encourage and train young

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on priorities and recommendations for the 59th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights on 29 January which called upon the European Union (EU) “to strongly condemn - in a resolution on

The Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies has condemned the recent execution of Lobsang Dhondup, accused of plotting bomb blast in Tibet.

A report issued on 25 January 2003 by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua praises the 'Regulations on the Study, Use and Development of the Tibetan Language' as one of the major achievements of the out-going 7th People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

A joint demostration taken out yesterday at 11 AM by three Dharamsala-based Tibetan NGOs; Tibetan Women's Association(TWA), Tibetan Youth Congress(TYC) and Gu-Chu-Sum Movement of Tibet; outside the Chinese embassy in Delhi.

Tibetans living-in-exile in Dharamsala town on Thursday condemned the execution of a Tibetan activist on charges of setting off bombs and inciting separatism in China. The 28-year-old religious leader Lobsong Dhondup was executed