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Sonam Stobdan, a 79-year-old farmer, wistfully remembers a time when Muslim traders from the Chinese town of Yarkand would arrive on horses and camels laden with carpets, shoes and jewellery.

The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) Europe has called on the EU to raise Tibet prominently during the sixth EU/China Summit in Beijing, which begins October 31.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is welcomed by a wellwisher, left, on his arrival at Narita Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 31 2003. The Dalai Lama will attend a joint lecture with one of Japan's Nobel Prize winners from last year during his 12-day visit. (AP Photo/Chiaki Tsukumo)

Archeologists have discovered a site used by New Stone Age nomadic people at an altitude of 4,234 meters in Tibet. The site, the first of such discovery at such a high altitude, is located three kilometers to the north of Yangbajain County in Damxung County.

Eric Engman/News-Miner TURBULENT TIMES--Tibetan Lama Palden Gyatso uses a watch as a prop as he describes methods of torture he endured while a prisoner of the Chinese to a group of Monroe Catholic High School students Tuesday.

Draping the length of his unfastened watch over the microphone in imitation of a dangling body, Tibetan Lama Palden Gyatso spoke of brutal episodes of horrific torture to the high school students filling the chapel at Monroe Catholic High School Tuesday morning.

Prince Charles with YOTA's executive director Linda Cruse

It was a moment of elation for the five young Tibetans who had the rare opportunity to interact with Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales who is currently on a nine-day tour of India.

Thirty-three Tibetans, including seven children, travelling through Nepal enroute to Dharamsala in India were arrested here for not carrying valid travel documents, police said.

Beijing's plan to pacify this restive Himalayan province involves a $3.2-billion railroad that will connect the rest of China to the frozen Tibetan plateau known as the roof of the world.