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Reporters Without Borders today deplored the "irresponsible" policies of major US Internet firms Yahoo ! and Google in bowing directly and indirectly to Chinese government demands for censorship and called for a code of conduct to be imposed.

Tibet's Beijing-appointed Governor invited Canadian members of parliament to his China-occupied region, but a top MP immediately questioned whether such a team would ever be allowed to visit.

A public relations tour to put a positive face on China's role in Tibet was met by demonstrators and tough questions from Tibetan expatriates during a stop in Ottawa Monday.

The government of Tibet says that if the Dalai Lama accepts the preconditions set by the Chinese government and returns to Tibet, it will make “good arrangements” for him but he should not expect any special privileges because he has done “no good” for his country during the 45 years that he has been away from it.

Three months after the Dalai Lama's visit to Canada, China's representative in Tibet seems to be having a hard time getting any attention from politicians.

Tibetan surgeons knew surgical procedures as complicated as craniotomy as early as the eighth century, about 10 centuries before their western counterparts. According to China View, a book called Four Volumes of Medicine

India's government will have its first top-level contact with China since taking office in May, when a new round of talks on their dragging border dispute starts Monday, but experts warn against high expectations.

India and China have begun a new round of talks in Delhi on their long running border dispute. The two-days talks are being held between the Indian National Security Adviser, JN Dixit, and his Chinese counterpart, Dai Bingguo.

The glorious isolation of Tibet is set to diminish further with the first train expected to chug its way to the top of the world in 2006. Work on the 1000-km Qinghai-Lhasa railway line is going on at a feverish pitch and the track has already reached the Tibet plateau at Arduo in the Nagu prefecture.

Look as hard as you like in Lhasa, but you won't find a photo or even a remote likeness of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's most important leader. Instead, in the heart of the holy city, in the ‘parikrama’ of the Jokhang monastery called the Barkhor, there are posters of Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai