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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,"

A Chinese official confirmed Wednesday that China has sentenced three more Tibetans to prison, in a case that prompted an international outcry last month when another Tibetan was sentenced to death.

Young Buddhist children look at Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, left, during a prayer meeting at Sarnath in Varanasi, India, Tuesday Jan. 21, 2003. Dalai Lama is on a three-day tour to Sarnath, the traditional northern India site of the Buddhas first teaching in the state of Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)