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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

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A former Indian foreign secretary, A. P. Venkateswaran, has said that the new formulation of Indian position on Tibet, as contained in the India-China Joint Declaration, betrays Tibet and undermines India's legal case concerning the border dispute.

Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, concluded a three-day long sermon on Saturday at Nubra valley in Leh town. Nearly 15,000 devotees attended the sermon that stressed on religious tolerance among people of different faiths.

Australian and Chinese officials are meeting in the Chinese capital, Beijing, for annual human rights talks known as The Dialogue. Our China correspondent John Taylor reports the talks were first held in 1997 as a way of addressing human rights issues of mutual concern.

China Southern Airlines (HKSE: 1055) has launched a SARS-delayed service from Guangzhou to Lhasa, Tibet. The new Monday, Wednesday and Saturday service originates from Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou in Southern China to Shangri-La

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Samajwadi Party President and former defence minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today reacted sharply to the alleged infiltration by People's Liberation Army soldiers into Arunachal Pradesh and said that the situation was ''insulting and shameful'' for India.

Senator Dianne Feinstein has assured a visiting high-level Nepalese delegation that she would move in the US Senate a bill for duty-and quota-free access to Nepali garments in the United States.