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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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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.

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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.

"Laogai," which means "reform through labor" in Chinese and is used to describe a system of labor camps in China that largely house political dissidents, has been included in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), according to the Laogai Research Foundation.

A senior State Department official has said that they are encouraged by the visits of the envoys of the Dalai Lama to China and hopes that such contacts will lead to a negotiated settlement on the Tibetan issue.

Chinese authorities have released eight of 18 Tibetan asylum-seekers forcibly repatriated from Nepal in May, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports. Sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said the remaining 10 would-be refugees are expected to be released soon.

Foreign secretary Madhu Raman Acharya was closeted with Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Congressman James Walsh of New York on Wednesday discussing possible quota and duty-free status for Nepali garment export to the United States.