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China has launched a charm offensive to showcase a modern, new-look Tibet with "happy and contented people" on the 40th anniversary celebrations of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Following his address to the Wood River Valley on Sunday, Sept. 11, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give a private address to a group of elite money managers at the home of investment banker Kiril Sokoloff.

Tiger skins make it to the roof of the world Despite the red alert sounded by the Ministry of Environment and Forests across the country, the trade in tiger and other big cat skins from India is flourishing alarmingly in Tibet and adjoining areas of China.

China has said that the Nathu La pass would be opened for trade in the middle of next year. The Chinese ambassador in India, Mr Sun Yuxi, said on Tuesday that experts from both sides would meet very soon to discuss issues

Information supplied by the internet giant Yahoo! to Chinese intelligence has resulted in the conviction of a journalist for "divulging state secrets abroad", a respected international press organisation said.

China is showing signs of an "unstoppable momentum" propelling it towards democracy, Tony Blair said yesterday.

Nobody would deny that the opening of China to the outside world has loosened the vile Maoist yoke. By decollectivising agriculture, decentralising industrial control and encouraging foreign trade and investment

China today said it does not want any more hiccups in its relations with "strategic partner" India though the two sides don't see eye to eye on what sparked the 1962 war.

The Australia Tibet Council has criticised a visit to Queensland by a delegation organised by the Chinese Government.

A major tragedy was averted when a bus carrying foreign tourists overturned near McLeodganj last night but was saved from rolling down into a khud after it hit a house along the road.