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A strong earthquake struck the Chinese region of Tibet early Sunday, the Hong Kong Observatory said. The observatory said the 5.8-magnitude quake struck 315 miles northwest of the Tibetan city of Lhasa at 2:52 a.m. Hong Kong time.

China is confident it can muster the numbers to derail a U.S.-sponsored resolution critical of Beijing's human rights record, senior Asian and Western diplomatic sources said yesterday.

When computer sleuths from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation studied the users of its website over the past 12 months, they found something very mysterious: Not a single person from China had visited the site.

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has begun a course in Tantrik Yoga for senior members of the Buddhist clergy in this town. The Tibetan leader gave a commentary on the "Chakrasamvara Text", the highest Tantrik Yoga teaching in Tibetan Buddhism.

The Assembly of the Tibetan People's Deputies yesterday announced the resignation of yet another Domed deputy. Deputy Tenzin Khedup is the fourth deputy to resign between 2003 and 2004.

Statement by Ambassador Mary Whelan, Head of the delegation of Ireland on behalf of the European Union. The EU reaffirms its commitment to the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue

In a major speech at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, the U.S. representative said several countries should be named as gross violators of human rights. The list of 17 countries includes Cuba, Iran, Zimbabwe, North Korea and China.

It is unlikely that Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will meet Prime Minister Paul Martin during a visit to Canada next month, Foreign Minister Bill Graham said.

His Toronto event will be held at SkyDome and in Vancouver, tickets for two spiritual teaching events held in a 4,000-seat auditorium were snapped up in 20 minutes.

On the 22nd of February 2004 the elderly former political prisoner Dawa, or 'Tsemonling' Dawa, passed away in Lhasa. Dawa personified a generation of men and women in Lhasa who from the 1980s, and throughout the 1990s