Prime Minister Tony Blair is going to Beijing in July. Ngawang Sangdrol, a tiny Tibetan nun now in London, wants Blair to press China's leaders to negotiate with the Dalai Lama.
The United States has, in a new report titled Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2002-2003, charged China with suppressing political, religious, and social groups. A Chinese spokesman responded saying the report was unfounded.
The RSS leadership is now unhappy with the outcome of Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee's visit to China, particularly with what it sees as a major change in New Delhi's position on Tibet, which has now been described as "part of China."
An 'ape-like' beast nearly 1.65 metres tall has been sighted in the forests of central China, a media report on Monday said. The grayish 'mythical ape-like animal', suspected by locals to be a 'bigfoot', was reported to have shoulder-length black hair, it said.
A sand painting made painstakingly grain by grain by Tibetan monks in Manchester has been destroyed - by those who built it. The intricate art work has been put together with coloured sand on a flat platform by monks at the city's town hall, over five days.
Last Monday night the monks at Namgyal monastery broke one of their cardinal rules: no TV except on Sunday nights. For weeks, the monks like the rest of the 100,000 Tibetan exiles in India, had been looking forward to this day when Prime
While considering Tibet to be the core issue in Indo-China talks, the Bharat Tibet Sahyog Manch, today said the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, should have raised the issue of human rights violation and destruction of Tibetan art and culture, during his visit to China.
