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"I was 54 not out when the sun vanished", recounts Mutthu Swamy a 13-year-old boy of Karikkattlu Kuppam village. They were playing cricket on the calm beach - their village pitch, when the tidal waves as high as the coconut trees came crashing

The recent decision of the Chinese government to eliminate taxes on farming and stock breeding in 22 provinces, and Prime Minister Wen Jianbo's promise of zero-tax for the agricultural sector within five years are welcome and timely.

As a historic 3 feet snowfall enveloped Mcleod Square in Dharamsala this week, a lone makeshift structure tout erect in defiance with the slumped snow-white vicinity.

Authorities in the Chinese capital have beaten and seriously injured a man for wearing a white flower in mourning for late ousted Party leader Zhao Ziyang, and they have arrested hundreds of others, Beijing residents told Radio Free Asia (RFA).

A Chinese court on Wednesday spared the life of a Tibetan monk convicted in a series of fatal bombings, commuting his death sentence to life in prison, the government said, in a case that prompted an international outcry.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is scheduled to visit the Wood River Valley in September, announced Kiril Sokoloff, a Ketchum resident and prominent investment researcher.

Chinese authorities should immediately provide urgent medical care to Tashi Phuntsog, a Tibetan monk who was released from prison on January 6, Human Rights Watch urged today.

The 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche and monks of Sherabling organized a special Puja in the fourth week at India International Center, Annexe C, New Delhi on January 23, 2005.

Naggapan wasn't at his two-story home when the tidal waves smashed his village, Karikkattlu Kupppam. His wife, Laxmi was at home preparing the morning catch while their youngest son had sneaked out to play marbles with the village kids. He never returned.

Chinese authorities have told senior religious leaders in a Tibetan area to urge the faithful to show more support for a top monk anointed by Beijing and on whom the future of the restive region may ride.