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China's rising economic power appears to have become a valuable tool in its struggle to further consolidate control over the Himalayan region of Tibet.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Carol Bellamy is in Tibet to get a first hand look at the situation of youngsters in Western China, a region that is struggling to catch up with the country’s strong economic growth.

Leaders vied to praise the Guru Granth Sahib at the "Parkash Utsav" celebrations on Wednesday. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar of the Art of Living fame, said the Granth should be taught to children not only in the country but also across the world.

Brewer Carlsberg has signed a multi-million dollar deal with a Chinese company to make beer in Tibet, state press said Wednesday. The new company, Tibet Lhasa Brewery, is a 50-50 joint venture between Carlsberg International and Tibet Galaxy Science Technology

China has deported an Australian activist and his American colleague after they campaigned for an improvement in human rights in Tibet by unfurling a banner in Beijing, it was reported today.

Tourists now outnumber monks in Sera monastery On an early afternoon at Sera monastery, just outside Lhasa, Tibetan monks debate theology in time-honoured tradition across a leafy sunlit courtyard.

The Tibetan Women's Association (TWA) is organizing the International Tibetan Women's Leadership Conference from 3rd to 5th of September 2004 at Asia Health Resort in Dharamsala.

TWO activists from Australia and the US and two journalists were detained briefly in China today after the unveiling of a banner in a Beijing park reading No Olympics for China until Tibet is Free, witnesses said.

At the end of the Athens 2004 Games International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge said the signs were there that Asia would be a strong force at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

Just hours after the Olympic flag was handed from Athens to Beijing, two members of the International Tibet Support Network (ITSN) today unfurled a banner reading 'No Olympic for China until Tibet is Free'