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Australia's ambassador to China today begins a rare visit to Tibet in which he will match a big new aid project with some political messages that may make Chinese authorities there less comfortable.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao today marked the 50th anniversary of his nation's "foreign policy of peace" with a call for greater democracy on the world stage and less "hegemony and power politics" in international diplomacy.

Australia's ambassador to China this week begins a visit to one of its most disputed territories. Hamish McDonald reports from Lhasa, Tibet.

Lhagyari Namgyal Wangchuk, descendant of Tibet’s 33rd King Songtsen Gampo, was today enthroned at a coronation ceremony in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

A renowned international Chinese writer Xinran Xue’s latest book Sky burial is an account based on a life of a Chinese woman who spent 34 years in Tibet and became a Tibetan.

“The Dalai Lama and his clique can no longer decide the destiny and future of Tibet.” This was the ominous warning issued by the government of the People’s Republic of China in a White Paper released during May this year.

A group of urban Tibetans scattered across the People's Republic of China (PRC) published on 22 June 2004 an open letter to the Chinese authorities urging them to prevent the famous Chinese athlete, Zhang Jian, from swimming across the holy Namtso lake on 31 July.

Returning from a week-long tour of China last week, Nepal's top military official announced that his Chinese interlocutors had promised military support to Kathmandu's on-going campaign against the armed insurgency

Two day Seminar on “Himalayan Security and Environment” was held in Gangtok (Sikkim) at the Community Hall, which was organized by the Core Group for Tibetan Cause and India Tibet Coordination Office, New Delhi from June 26-27, 2004.

Amidst diminishing hopes of a Free-Tibet in the backdrop of new-found bonhomie between India and China, pro-Tibet groups have raised fears of a possiblenuclear holocaust in South Asia in the wake of the increased deployment of nuclear weapons in Tibetanplateau by China.