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The Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, playfully touches fists with musician Dave Matthews (R) after a panel discussion on "Dialogue for Compassion" at Key Arena at the Seattle Center on the first day of the 5-day Seeds of Compassion gathering in Seattle, Washington, April 11, 2008. (REUTERS/Marcus R. Donner)

Chinese internet blogs and chat-rooms are full of calls for a boycott of French goods and contracts since the raucous protests which forced the Olympic torch off the streets of Paris last Monday.

MotoGP riders are considering a protest at the Chinese Grand Prix in May over the security crackdown in Tibet. Former world champion Valentino Rossi of Italy said the riders would

Runners surrounded by rows of security carried the Olympic flame past thousands of jubilant Argentines on Friday in the

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged China on Friday to open its troubled region of Tibet up to journalists and diplomats.

The Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs is to ask the Government to consider not sending representatives to the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, in protest at the abuse

Chinese security guards who have accompanied the Olympic torch on its route through London, Paris and San Francisco will not be allowed to run alongside the torch in Japan later this

More than 500 kids of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), an international NGO fighting child labour, took part in a peace march with Tibetan youth in the Indian capital Friday to

Jan Ligarde began volunteering with Tibetan exiles in the early 1990s. "I think if one person, just one, is being abused in injustice, we should stand up for that one person

A large protest planned by Tibetans and their supporters during the Olympic torch relay in Canberra is aimed at pushing China to talk to the exiled Dalai Lama and is not against China or the Olympics