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An eight-member Nepali team left for Beijing today to participate in the first session of the third Nepal-China Joint Border Inspection meeting to be held in the Chinese capital from March 25 to 26.

Chinese authorities have launched a political re-education program at an official television station in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa after it broadcast shots containing the Tibetan national flag, which is banned under Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Tsering Lhamo, half of the husband-wife team that runs Tibet Kitchen in Northwest Portland, practices traditional Tibetan healing. She says the food you eat every day is the most important medicine.

A French municipality has decided to highlight the Tibetan cause by celebrating 2004 as the Year of Tibet. The municipality of Mouans-Sartoux, located near Cannes in southern France, hoists the Tibetan national flag every year on March 10, the Tibetan uprising day.

An 8-year old Tibetan girl was crowned the queen of chessboard in Australia. According to a report received from Australia based Office of the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

One of the world's greatest rivers has been reduced to a trickle in places by a series of giant Chinese dams and engineering works which are threatening the livelihoods of up to 100 million people in south-east Asia.

China has discovered 40 billion tons of offshore oil and natural gas reserves, according to the Ministry of Land and Resources, which said oil and natural gas reserves are concentrated in 38 depository basins in the territorial seas.

China will ask the UN Education, Culture and Science Organisation (UNESCO) to add the ruins of an ancient Tibetan kingdom on the world cultural and natural heritage list, Xinhua reports.

The Bush administration said China's threat to halt negotiations over human rights issues is virtually meaningless because China hasn't complied with its past commitments.

An avalanche has buried 4,000 acres of grassland in northwestern China's Qinghai province, trapping 175 Tibetan families and destroying their grazing lands.