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Tibet drought worst in three decades: Chinese state media

Dharamshala — A drought in Tibet has intensified into the region's worst in three decades, leaving thousands of hectares parched and killing more than 13,000 head of cattle, China's state media said Saturday.

Lha Social Works Observes World Environment Day

Dharamshala: In observation of UN World Environment Day, Lha Social Works, a Charitable Trust organized a mass trash collection project Friday, June 5th, 2009 in McLeod Ganj, India. Over 50 people, including Lha staff, volunteers, and students, gathered to spread awareness and collect trash in the main streets of the city.

Basic Joomla Workshop Improves Tibetan Webpages

Dharamshala-Mr. Martin Rasser, an Austrian web developer, offering a free workshop on 7 May on Joomla content management system. Joomla is a free system that can be used to manage websites easily, it also helps in designing and maintaining websites and makes the task much easier as compared to some of the complicated software that is used . Some of the NGOs including Tibetan media in Dharamshala are already using Joomla because of its easy-to-use and user friendly nature.

China threatens Tibet again; this time global warming

DharamshalaObliteration of human rights, enforced martial law, cultural genocide, now China threatens Tibet with further devastation. On Wednesday China’s senior water official warned that millions inside of Tibet are in grave danger from floods and droughts caused by global warming.