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When the world began the year with all sorts of celebrations Friends of Tibet, India, marked it with the launch of their boycott campaign against the use, purchase and sale of Chinese goods.

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As the Indiana Jones films showed, Nazis, new age mumbo-jumbo and exotic locations are a formula that works. Christopher Hale's gripping and well-researched tale of an SS-sponsored scientific mission to Tibet in 1938-39 has the whole shebang

Northern India serves up great versions of the substantial, often plain but occasionally overpowering cuisine from the roof of the world. While top chefs through the ages have created delicacies with grain, vegetable and livestock

An Australian delegation investigating the human rights situation in Tibet has finished its seven-day tour of the Himalayan region. The tour focused on education, public health and religious freedom.

There has been a slow start to the resumption of tourism to Tibet following the lifting of restrictions on 1 July that were imposed in order to prevent the spread of SARS, and tighter controls appear to be being imposed on tourists entering Tibet from Nepal.

White animals appearing identical to Polar bears have been spotted by local people in Tibet, a media report said on Saturday. The sightings, reported in several remote counties of the Himalayan region

China recently requested that foreign governments require their citizens who were born in Taiwan to declare their place of birth as "China" on passports, a move that has riled Taiwanese Americans and enflamed the China-Taiwan reunification debate.

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President George Bush has delegated to the Secretary of State the submission of "certain recurring reports," including on Tibet Negotiations Status, to the Congress. This is part of an Executive Order issued on July 31, 2003.