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Prayer flags are hung for missing relatives at the site of a landslide in Danba county in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Garze, in southwest China's Sichuan Province. More than 50 people are missing and one person is confirmed dead after a massive mudslide was dislodged by flash floods.

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A Rochester church promotes peace and unity through an ancient art. It is called Mandala painting. Tibetan monks use colored sand funneled through a metal tube to create an image.

Leh, July 16 - Tibetan Buddhists in the Himalayan region of Ladakh recently celebrated the two-day Hemis festival. The main function was held at the isolated monastery of Hemis, 45 kilometers from Leh, capital of Ladakh.

Mr. Anthony Cary, Chief of the Cabinet of EU Commissioner Patten, received Ms. Ngawang Sangdrol at the European Commission.

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.

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