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A 60-year-old Japanese mountaineer will form a seven-member party and leave for a two-month Himalayan mission next month in quest for the legendary and elusive Yeti, according to his family.

Dear Prime Minister, We write to you about your forthcoming visit to China and Hong Kong to urge that human rights issues be prominent on your agenda when you meet with President Hu Jintao and other senior officials.

The authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region have stepped up the implementation of family planning policy with the despatch of 64 specially equipped vehicles to be used in different counties as mobile clinics.

Rescuers said there was little hope of finding alive 49 people who went missing following a landslide in a mountainous region in southwestern China's Sichuan province.

The Tibet Intergroup of the European Parliament held a meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on 8 July 2003 to assess the relationship between the Tibetans in exile and the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Beginning July 26, China Southern Airlines will open flights from Guangzhou to Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, via Shangri-La in Yunnan Province.

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Composer Philip Glass, opera vocalist Jessye Norman, experimental jazz act Kronos Quartet and Native American flautist R. Carlos Nakai are among the acts slated to perform at a Sept. 21 charity event at the Lincoln Center in New York.

Tibet's government-in-exile Monday urged China to rethink its developmental projects in the region as they would have an adverse effect on the environment. Releasing a "white paper" on the state of the environment in Tibet

China's central government has ordered the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) to sack its foreign-educated Tibetan tourist guides and replace them with Chinese graduates, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports. The order affects hundreds of Tibetans educated in India or Nepal.