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Jamyang Norbu: Remembering Tibet’s Freedom Fighters

Jamyang Norbu: Remembering Tibet’s Freedom Fighters
When the secret program to train Tibetan fighters in the USA started in 1958, Camp Hale in Colorado was selected because of its perceived similarity to the terrain in Tibet, and because of its general isolation.
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MKRide: 65 days later, they’re back in Shanghai
              In mid-August, brothers Colin and Ryan Pyle took off on a motorcycle ride across all of China. The MKRide trip was meant to to raise funds for SEVA , a charitable foundation that finds solutions for health problems in lower income communities around the world. After a couple of breakdowns, a lot of beautiful scenery and one really, really long traffic jam , the guys are finally …
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US envoy meets Dalai Lama
A US envoy held talks Monday with Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and voiced support for a peaceful solution with China, officials said, in the first meeting between the two sides in months.
Extracted from: Read more on AFP via Yahoo! News