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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.

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.

A Beijing-based Internet company has been implicated in creating a program specifically designed to spy on computers of Tibetan Government-in-Exile (TGIE) and Tibet Support Groups (TSG).