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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.

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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.

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.

For half her young life, nun Ngawang Sangdrol has been jailed and tortured for defying Chinese occupation. Now she's free, and pleading for help for her homeland, writes Edward Douglas.

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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

Leilani Hotaling of Minnetonka always thought of herself as a Buddhist at heart. "I've wanted to somehow become connected with the Buddhist community," she said. Having done "quite a bit of reading" on Buddhism, she decided to attend the 25th anniversary of the Minnesota Sakya Center.