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Blair to Raise Human Rights with Chinese Premier

Prime Minister Tony Blair will raise concerns about democracy in Hong Kong and human rights in Tibet when he meets Chinese premier Wen Jiabao this afternoon, a Foreign Office minister said today.

Chinese PM set for talks with Blair amid Tibet protests

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, nearing the end of his European tour, was set to hold talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair against a backdrop of protests over Tibet.

His Holiness Returns to Dharamsala

After successful visits to US, Canada and France His Holiness the Dalai Lama returned to Dharamsala today. Mr. Pema Jungney, the Chairman of the Tibetan Parliament, and Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa

BSU professor part of Tibet’s struggle for freedom

Last month was a busy one for Ball State University professor Larry Gerstein. As a leader of The International Tibet Independence Movement (ITIM), Gerstein participated as a speaker and organizer in this year's Peace Ride for Tibet's Independence.

Experts debate Asia frontier environment

Camera-wielding Western tourists ambush a dawn procession of monks in this once tranquil royal capital. Chinese engineers erect huge dams and blow up rapids on one of the world's last great untamed rivers.

Protestors Gather Outside China’s London Embassy as Wen Arrives

About 50 pro-Tibet and Falun Gong campaigners gathered opposite the Chinese embassy in London as China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao arrived in the U.K. for a three-day visit.

Teen tending her Tibetan roots

Tenying Yangsel was born in Tibet, but her country is little more than a state of mind. Her mother fled to India with 1-month-old Tenying and her brothers, then 2 and 4. Five years ago, she left her children with her sister in Nepal to come to New York City to work as a nanny.

Tibet easier problem for China to solve than Taiwan: Dalai Lama

China is likely to find it easier to resolve the problem of Tibet than that of Taiwan, the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, said in France.

The name of the robes

Tales of astral flying, monks who meditate until their heads bleed and gurus who leave handprints in a rock pop up regularly in Mick Brown's The Dance of 17 Lives. Yet, unlike the author's 1999 The Spiritual Tourist

There’s something happening here

Forget the Dalai Lama's photo ops and repeated grip 'n' grins with celebrities, writes RON GRAHAM, because the mission at the heart of his much-hyped visit to Canada was something even greater than the campaign for a free Tibet.

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