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After meetings with Chinese officials in Beijing, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters that the January execution of Lobsang Dhondup was among recent "setbacks" in the U.S.-China human rights dialogue, according to a February 24 BBC report.

The multiphonic singers of Tibet's Drepung Loseling Monastery, whose sellout performances in Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center received national acclaim, will perform "Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing" Thursday, Feb. 27

A devastating earthquake shook western China Monday, killing at least 257 people, injuring more than 1,000 and flattening homes, schools and other buildings near the Silk Road oasis of Kashgar.

Beginning March this year when Tibetans all over are celebrating the festive season of Losar (Tibetan New Year), Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) in conjunction with Bharat-Tibbat Sahyog Manch (BTSM) will be carrying out a marathon ten-day

Tradition and change blend in Litang. A man in a fox-fur hat rides a motorcycle bearing a photo of the late Panchen Lama, a spiritual leader. (Erik Eckholm/The New York Times)

It is dawn at the Litang Monastery, and Tibetan spirituality seems to be alive and well, if slightly disheveled. As a brilliant Venus fades in the rising sun, the 300 monks straggle to their prayer stations, chants mingling with trumpet calls in the thin crisp air.

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.

A business dispute sparked clashes between ethnic Tibetans and Chinese Muslims in western China, resulting in hundreds of injuries and widespread property damage, a U.S.-financed broadcaster reported Sunday.

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.