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The Yangtze River, with its long and storied place in the epic history of China, is host to a domestic controversy unlike any other in the nation – a mammoth water project that will fully submerge over 150 towns.

Police in western China have executed a Tibetan for a string of bomb attacks in support of Tibetan independence, despite an international outcry over the fairness of his trial.

Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) is outraged to learn that Chinese authorities executed Lobsang Dhondup after a secret re-trial at the Sichuan Provincial Higher People’s Court. The court also upheld the death sentence passed down to Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an influential Buddhist leader.

The Higher People's Court of Sichuan Province in Chengdu confirmed on Sunday 26 January 2003 the death sentences given to the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and his aide and relative Lobsang Thondup.

Lobsang Dhondup, one of the two Tibetans earlier sentenced to death by a Chinese court on December 2, was executed in Kandze, reports AP.

The only movement in the blueberry-colored room is the smoke wafting up from a single stick of incense. The only sound is the soft motorized hum of a prayer wheel spinning, sending out thousands of invocations for peace and good wishes with each turn.

Lobsang Samten works on the third layer of this sand painting he constructed recently at the Holter Museum. At the center of the painting is a pig, rooster, and a snake representing the three afflictive emotions, which are lack of understanding reality, greed, and anger. (By Jon Ebelt IR Staff Photographer)

They warned Lobsang Samten that America was like a paper tiger: It may shimmer and shake, but in the end it will do nothing for you. They said it was China that made Tibet great, building roads and schools to align the ancient seat of Buddhism with the modern world.

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Lobsang Sangay first took to the streets to demonstrate against Chinese occupation of his family's native Tibet at the age of 14. In a conversation with some older Tibetans, Sangay heard one of them say, "Look at the way that the Chinese are treating us.