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Tibet's government-in-exile, which is allowed refuge by India, has welcomed Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's decision to visit China next month. "Good relations between India and China will provide better prospects for the Tibetan issue to be resolved,"

TAR Party secretary Guo Jinlong (second left) and TAR deputy Party secretary Yang Chuantang (on right), presenting a commemorative banner to ground and air units from Chengdu military district and ground units stationed in Lhasa, who had carried out relief flights to disaster areas in Nyingtri prefecture. 24/11/00 (Courtesy: Tibet Daily)

The Tibet Autonomous Region's Party Secretary Guo Jinlong is being replaced by another Chinese leader, Yang Chuantang, formerly his deputy, according to Radio Free Asia -a move that has been rumoured for several months.

In the first-ever presidential report to Congress on the status of Tibet negotiations, President Bush has affirmed that encouraging substantive dialogue between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese leadership is a key objective of his

The Chinese government should immediately release two Tibetan prisoners whose medical conditions are deteriorating sharply, Human Rights Watch urged today. The New York-based monitoring organization also called on the Chinese government

Forest rangers in northwest China's Qinghai province have arrested nine people suspected of slaughtering 1,000 state-protected Tibetan antelopes, state media said Sunday.

Tibet's mountains and monuments appeal to tourists

China has taken drastic action to keep the poverty-stricken Tibet Autonomous Region (Tar), free of the deadly Sars flu virus. Foreign travellers are banned, international flights have been halted and internal Chinese flights cut back.

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is to visit China in June, capping new efforts to foster friendship between the world's two most populous nations, Defence Minister George Fernandes said.

The Chinese government has issued a decree whereby eight thousand Tibetan inhabitants would be forcefully displaced in order to implement a major project in constructing seven Dams in Barkham County, Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous