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Chinese geologists have discovered silicified wood fossils of the Cretaceous period in areas near Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

Ladakhi girls weave carpets inside a workshop in Leh, in the north of Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir October 2, 2003. A thaw in relations between India and China, the world's two most populous countries, has raised hopes in Ladakh, also known as little Tibet, of an end to its isolation from its nearest neighbor. Picture taken October 2, 2003. TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE INDIA-CHINA REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski

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)

The Dalai Lama arrived in Tokyo on Friday for a visit that is likely to irritate China, which views Tibet's exiled spiritual leader as a "dangerous separatist."

China will invest in the European Union's project for satellite navigation and will send more tourists to Europe.

The Fourteenth Dalai Lama is not insisting on independence for Tibet, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of the Russian internal republic of Kalmykia, told a news conference held at the Interfax central office on Thursday.

In an unprecedented move, Mr. Dawa Gyaltsen, a former teacher of TCV School, lodged a civil suit at Shimla High Court against Mr. Jadur Sangpo, the Chief Justice commissioner of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission.

After 50 years of a repressive foreign occupation in Tibet and worldwide Diaspora of Tibetan refugees, there are a growing number of Tibetan artists exploring new forms of expressing the truth of their being.