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Interview: Dalai Lama speaks to euronews

The voyage to France of Tenzin Gyatso, better known as the Dalai Lama, has drawn plenty of comment, good and bad. Loved or loathed, at 73, the Nobel Peace Prize winner likes to present

China keeps pro-Tibet websites blocked

Pro-Tibet websites remained blocked in the Olympic press centre and elsewhere on Friday, amid reports that Chinese troops had opened fire on protesters in a remote area of southwest China

US urges free speech after China detains six foreigners

The United States called on China Thursday to allow peaceful protests, after Beijing police detained six foreigners amid a wave of demonstrations by pro-Tibet activists during the Olympics

Beijing police grab foreign and Chinese activists

olice descended on a group of foreign pro-Tibet activists and some disgruntled business owners from Hong Kong on Thursday, taking both groups away minutes after they displayed protest signs in

China curbs protests

Plain clothed security officers detain Associated Press photographer Ng Han Guan, center, after pro-Tibet protesters held a demonstration opposite the National Stadium, where Olympic athletics competition had just finished, early Thursday July 21, 2008 in Beijing. Swarms of plainclothes police took away four foreign activists protesting Chinese rule over Tibet - the latest in a series of such demonstrations during the Olympics. Ng, and one other AP photographer were roughed up by the security officers, forced into cars and taken to a nearby building where they questioned before being released. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

Personal financial interest behind Chrétien attack on PM’s China policy, Kenney says

Mr. Kenney noted that Parliament unanimously voted to make the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen, and said it is disturbing to think that Canada would let a foreign power dictate whom it should honour

Chinese may have killed 140 Tibetans this week: Dalai Lama

Chinese security forces opened fire on a crowd this week in eastern Tibet and may have killed 140 people, the Dalai Lama told a French daily on Thursday

Tibet’s Olympics

The Beijing Summer Olympiad commenced with the Parade of Nations streaming through Bird's Nest, dancers, canons, fireworks, with scores of diplomats, dignitaries and heads of state

Tibet group decries politics behind postponed Dalai Lama visit

The organizers of a visit by the Dalai Lama to Costa Rica claimed yesterday that President Oscar Arias asked them to "uninvite" the exiled Tibetan leader because of conflicts with China

Chinese voices on Tibet: a letter to the Dalai Lama, and comments from an outspoken critic in Beijing

As the Summer Olympics draw to a close in Beijing this weekend - in an environment of unprecedented security, repression and censorship - two prominent Chinese intellectuals, one in Beijing

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