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The Government has been warned that it must respect China's internal policies on Taiwan and Tibet if it wishes to achieve a closer partnership.

Green MP Metiria Turei will hand over a letter from Friends of Tibet (New Zealand) to Chinese President Hu Jintao at tonight's state dinner at the Sheraton hotel in Auckland.

The head of a predominantly Buddhist region of Russia is traveling to China to seek Beijing's approval for a visit by the Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, to visit Russia.

According to a report carried out by the Chinese official news agency Xinhua, Yang Chuantang who was hitherto deputy secretary and Standing Committee member of the Sixth Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

Nine members of TYC arrested on 22nd October night in front of Hotel Taj Palace was today produced in the court of Special Executive Magistrate Sh. M. R. Mehmi at 2 PM.

Rocker Sting has donated his fee of a travel essay that he wrote for a Men's Journal about his 2003 trip to Nepal to a Buddhist monk school.

Ngawang Choephel, the Tibetan Fulbright scholar recently released from a Chinese prison, and Bhuchung Tsering, director of the International Campaign for Tibet, will speak 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov.

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, left, looks in the direction of the third ranking Lama in Tibetan Buddhism Karmapa, right, at the 43rd anniversary of the Tibetan Children's Village School at Dharamsala, India, Monday, Oct. 27, 2003. (AP Photo/Ashwani Bhatia)

Pro-Tibet protesters wave flags and banners while waiting for Chinese President Hu Jinato to arrive at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland.(AFP/Dean Tremil)

China's foreign minister showed anger over the presence of protesters near a New Zealand museum President Hu Jintao was visiting prior to his tour of a laboratory that is working on treatments for HIV, SARS and other diseases.