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The trimmings of modern sports venues don't exist here. Seating is wherever a spectator can find an empty place to sit, be it a concrete ledge or a tree stump. There's no toilets and no concession stands. Players are chasing the ball on a barren patch of dirt.

From left: Tsering Shakya, Tsering Dhundup Gonkatsang and Sonam T. Frasi at the Tibet Foundation Culture Centre (Tibet Foundation)

The Tibet Foundation's Art and Culture programme held a seminar and open discussion on Sino-Tibet Relations on 23 January 2003. Tsering Dhondup Gonkatsang of Oxford University was in the chair, with Sonam Tsering Frasi

What is the first thing you notice about this sculpture? Perhaps you are amazed to discover that the figure has so many arms and heads. This is no ordinary human being! So who is it?

According to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), the 18 Tibetan detainees were deported from Nepal to Tibet under pressure from the Chinese Embassy in Nepal. At 6 a.m. this morning, police officers from Hanuman Dhoka District Police Station forcefully led the group into a police van. It is reported that the group resisted but were overpowered by police who lifted the detainees and pushed them into the van.

The legends of Shambala are one of the few oriental subjects that have become really very popular even outside the Eastern world. However, there are practically no fundamental scientific works dedicated to Shambala.

A long expected second round of the Sino-Tibetan contact started on Sunday 25 May with the arrival in Beijing of a delegation representing the Dalai Lama. Neither the itinerary nor the duration of the trip appears to have been clearly agreed upon.

WHY does the United Nations so often shoot itself in the foot? Just as the World Health Organisation is basking in accolades at its annual assembly this week for its part in the battle to overcome the spread of the severe acute

A new generation of Tibetan leaders, more highly educated and technologically capable than their predecessors, is emerging in the Tibetan government. According to Xinhua, Jampa Phuntsog, one of the Tibetan Deputy Party Secretaries

Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary (bottom) were the first to successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest. A new biography (top) profiles Tenzing's journey through life. (Photograph copyright Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS, Cover Art courtesy Royal Geographical Society)