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- ↑ "Rowell Fund for Tibet Announces Grants to Projects on Maternal Healthcare, Photography, Journalism, & Oral History" Archived 27 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine , 8 December 2011
- ↑ "ATJ Stylebook | Association of Tibetan Journalists". Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
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