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Students watch as the monks create a Sand Mandala

Encountering the Gyuto Tibetan monk culture yesterday left Shepparton Catholic school students speechless. Notre Dame College and St Brendan's Primary School students silently watched with fascination as the monks

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India's Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal visited the Kingdom of Bhutan from July 22 to 24, 2003 to brief the Bhutanese King and leaders on the recent talks between Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee and Chinese leaders.

Three Chinese who have been arrested or persecuted for their writings about China have been awarded the prestigious Hellman/Hammett grant, a US-based rights group said Tuesday.

Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang (R) and Deputy Secretary of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Geoff Raby pose before a press conference yesterday in Beijing. [newsphoto.com.cn]

The seventh annual Sino-Australian human-rights dialogue was held Monday in Beijing. "The dialogue was positive, constructive and fruitful,'' said Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang, who led the Chinese delegation.

Official and unofficial reports from Tibet describe how dozens of nomadic and farming families are in the process of being moved out from their traditional land in the east of Chamdo prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region

An Australian governmental delegation, led by Dr. Geoff Raby, deputy secretary of the Australian Foreign Ministry, is expected to visit Tibet this week following the seventh China-Australia Human Rights dialogue held in Beijing on July 28, 2003.

The Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Administration has returned to Dharamsala after a successful tour of two of the Tibetan settlements in Central India. In what seem to have been a follow up his earlier visits to the Tibetan