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Chinese President Hu Jintao flew into Auckland for talks with New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. Earlier in the day he left Wellington where he arrived Saturday and flew to Hamilton for brief tours of agricultural research facilities.

Chinese geological workers have verified three major porphyry copper ore strips in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. With the verification, copper ore resource potential in Tibet is expected to account for one third of China's national total

A Special Executive Magistrate today ordered and sent 27 members of TYC to Tihar Central Jail and has been remanded for judicial custody till 31st October. One member was released on personal bond because of his respiratory problem and weak health.

It is hoped human rights can be slipped on to the agenda in the Prime Minister's talks with the Chinese premier this weekend. President Hu Jintao has arrived in Wellington today, and is in the country until Monday.

Tibetan youth cry as police detain them during a demonstration against the visit of a Chinese delegation to India, outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, India, Friday Oct. 24, 2003. Indian and Chinese officials held talks on longstanding border disputes Thursday, shortly after Beijing softened its rhetoric on the issues. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

On the final day of visiting five Chinese delegations led by its Senior Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo to New Delhi, about 100 members of Tibetan Youth Congress in a different groups stormed the Chinese Embassy in the evening.

Greens lower house MP Michael Organ would wear a Tibetan flag on his lapel when visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao addresses federal parliament, Senator Bob Brown said.

Australia Tibet Council (ATC) official Jill Chambers (L) is asked by a plain clothes police officer to move her colleagues' small demonstration outside Chinese President Hu Jintao's Sydney hotel October 23, 2003. The ATC held their demonstration in conjunction with the arrival of President Hu Jintao who is in Australia on four-day State visit for talks expected to focus on trade. (REUTERS/Will Burgess)

Chinese President Hu Jintao should listen to those urging greater freedom in his country, especially Tibet, an Australian Tibetan said today.

Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have executed a Uyghur dissident who detailed a grim litany of torture sessions in an unprecedented testimony recorded for Radio Free Asia (RFA), which he requested be held until he was "in a safe place."