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A business dispute between ethnic Tibetans and Chinese Moslems in China's western Qinghai Province flared into large-scale communal violence, resulting in hundreds of injuries and massive property damage, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

For years, the 96-acre parcel on Putnam Park Road has been used for workshops and retreats. Now, the Buddhist organization that runs it hopes to make the site available to others seeking a place to meditate and reflect.

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Senior Chinese Communist Party leader Jia Qinglin Thursday met Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, the 11th Panchen Lama-who is not recognised by His Holiness the Dlaia Lama, at the Great Hall of the People in downtown Beijing.

Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso shares a lighter moment during a forum at Phillips Exeter Academy telling the story of his 33 years of imprisonment at the hands of the Chinese government and their occupation of his homeland. (Mark Avery/Democrat Photo)

Proclaiming the words "Free Tibet" at a Lhasa, Tibet, marketplace in 1994 cost the soft-spoken and diminutive nun Passang Lhamo dearly — five years in prison.

A Tibetan doctor is in Durban this week to promote an ancient holistic and alternative approach to medicinal treatment - particularly with regard to the treatment of HIV and Aids symptoms.

The sun has shied away to welcome the first winter rainfalls which was immediately followed by a much awaited but untimely snowfall in this crowded hilltown of Himachal Pradesh.

Firefighting teams of soldiers and Tibetan villagers put out a forest fire late Friday that burned for two days in the Himalayan region, an official said.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is making a brief trip to Asia including a stopover in China, where he is expected to seek cooperation on North Korea and Iraq and raise human rights issues.