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Chinese Ambassador Sun Heping today said that his country is positive and will “appreciate” the idea of joining South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) with an aim of promoting regional economic cooperation.

The Dalai Lama, who began his six-day visit to Scotland on Saturday, has said that the country’s devolution settlement could prove a useful model for a form of government which would bring peace to his homeland of Tibet.

Thousands of people, lead by the Glasgow City Council's Lord Provost, extended a very warm welcome and applauded as His Holiness the Dalai Lama entered the podium of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre here to give the much awaited talk on "Inner Peace, Outer Harmony."

China has banned a Swedish-made computer game for "distorting history and damaging China's sovereignty and territorial integrity," the Ministry of Culture (MOC) said Friday.

The Dalai Lama is due to arrive in Glasgow on his third visit to Scotland. The exiled political leader and spiritual head of Tibet's Buddhists will spend four days in the city before going on to Edinburgh and Dunfermline.

A resolution calling for the immediate release of all Tibetan political prisoners, including Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, has been introduced in the US Senate on May 19, 2004 by Senator Sam Brownback (KS). It has now been referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

China says the Tibetan boy internationally viewed as the second highest leader of Tibetan Buddhism is alive and well, the Times of London reported Friday.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said he was "optimistic" about patching up relations with China, as he continued a visit to Britain loudly condemned by Beijing. Speaking at a lecture in London on the second day of his trip

Global problems cannot solely be blamed on leaders like Saddam Hussein, the Dalai Lama has told a UK audience. The exiled Tibetan leader, currently on a tour of the UK, told a Westminster audience there were wider issues and "change must come from the grass roots".

China has launched an information blitz in the United States to dispel what it calls Western propaganda that portrays human rights and other abuses by Beijing in Tibet.