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"China-China, the world is watching you!" shouted a crowd of about one thousand students Friday afternoon outside the Chinese Consulate on West 42nd Street.

Nepal is relying on China's development plans in Tibet to develop its own mountainous northern districts. Kathmandu feels that the sluggish development of the 11 districts near its northern border with China will benefit from Beijing's drive to develop Tibet.

Disguised as a peasant, the Buddhist monk Geshe Lhundup Sopa escaped his homeland of Tibet in 1959, slipping away from the occupying Chinese over high mountain passes and, after 15 days, into India where he sought exile.

Hectic arrangements are going on in Sikkim to make the visit of his highness Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet a grand success, with barely a few days left for his arrival in Gangtok.

A first part of Tibet Festival, "Taste of the Tibetan Culture", concludes successfully in Santiago, the Capital of Chile, on April 12 with the presentation of the two well-attended workshops

With the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India touted as a prospective landmark development with a promise of a new impetus in the bilateral relations, Indian Government's curb on the political activities by the Tibetans

A group of Tibetans in the United States will once again bike ride for Tibet's Independence. Jigme Norbu from Indiana and Rinpo Tenzin from Minnesota will lead eight other Tibetans from California, Chicago, and Washington, DC in this 240+ mile action.

The four-day China Trade Fair kicked off here in Kathmandu on Friday. The trade fair is aimed at promoting Chinese products in Nepal and exploring possibilities of Chinese investment in Nepal, organisers said.

The residence of the Chinese ambassador here was vandalised and a Chinese consulate in Osaka received a threatening letter yesterday in apparent retaliation for violent anti-Japan protests in China.

The Dharamsala Information Technology Group was launched today to tackle Information Technology development in the region. The Tibetan Computer Resource Center and leading IT professionals in Dharamsala, India formed the new group