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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.

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.

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."

Tibetans in Choepheling Settlement in Miao in Arunachal Pradesh State of northeastern India have for the first time elected their settlement officer, according to information made available by the Tibetan Election Commission here today.

A Chinese security "agent" successfully pressured Australia's parliamentary speaker to exclude three activists from the public gallery during a speech by Chinese President Hu Jintao, a senator said.

The International Buddhist Film Festival (IBFF) debuts at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) November 20-23, 2003, beginning with a gala benefit screening and reception Thursday evening, November 20th.