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On a high mountain pass in central Tibet, three men, clad in heavy leather aprons and coated in dust from the road, are making a painful pilgrimage, pausing every few steps to prostrate themselves on the stony ground in a show of their enduring devotion to their Buddhist religion.

With the Dalai Lama still living in India, Beijing thought it important to get Vajpayee to accept that the TAR, which China had created in 1965, was a part of China.

Remarks attributed to a senior Chinese Foreign Ministry official have clouded the prospects of a breakthrough in negotiations over the festering border dispute between China and India.

Scores of people took to the streets of Scotland's capital today to protest against the appearance of a band from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) at this year's Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

A preview of Mirror Of Wisdom , the 58-minute-long documentary on his holiness Dalai Lama, the greatest living crusader for peace and harmony was organised in the Renaissance Auditorium in Gaya on Saturday evening.

Communist China's liberalisation policy of the late 1970's opened the gateway of the 'Forbidden Land' to the outside world for the first time since it assumed full control over Tibet in 1959.

The People's Republic of China is many things to many people: a vast market of a billion consumers to the corporate leaders in the west, a mystery wrapped in enigma to the diplomats trying to run the embassy of mutually beneficial relations

Some 120,000 members of the Communist Party of China, of whom 60 per cent (72,000) are of Tibetan nationality, run the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The executive vice-chairman of TAR told TNN .

Authorities in Una district in Himachal Pradesh moved swiftly to contradict a television channel report that people who were angry that the Union Government had failed to secure the release of three Indians held in Iraq had taken 37 foreigners hostage.

Hundreds of protesters from across the UK are to flock to Edinburgh this weekend to oppose the visit of the Chinese army to this year’s Tattoo.