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Tibet and the World Cup

The eyes of the world have been drawn to the World Cup games in South Africa. Every day, everyone seems to have a new favorite team to support, shout for and talk about. A football

Spain’s semi final hero fascinated by Buddhism, met Dalai Lama in 2007

Barcelona and Spain defender Carles "Tarzan" Puyol who scored the only goal of the semi final against Germany to send his country into the first ever world cup final

Face-saving compromise lets China, Google do business

China's renewal of Google's Internet license reflects a face-saving compromise between a political powerhouse and a technology titan who both sought to avoid a p

Polish journalists denied Chinese Visa, blacklisted for criticizing China

Both the journalists working for Poland’s largest newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, specialized in covering stories on China are now “blacklisted” by the Chinese author

Google says China has renewed its license

The Internet giant Google said Friday that the Beijing government had renewed its license to operate a Web site in mainland China, ending months of tension after the company stopped censoring search results here

Indian Foreign secretary to visit Dharamsala: report

India’s Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is visiting Dharmasala, the exile hometown of the Dalai Lama and the base for the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, Saturday but it is not known if she will meet the Tibetan leader

Nalanda varsity revival, minus the Dalai Lama

Nalanda University will be revived but the Dalai Lama will have no association with the project to resurrect the ancient seat of Buddhist learning, an omission aimed at respecting China’s sensibilities

China asked to release award-winning Tibetan activist brothers

Human rights group Amnesty International on Thursday called on China to stop persecution of three award-winning Tibetan environmental activist brothers, two of whom were recently given lengthy prison sentences

The Dalai Lama

His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, 75, is respected by the Tibetan people as their temporal and spiritual leader. At age 2, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso

Modernising Tibet masks deep contradictions

The influx of Hans, however, is one of the great sources of tension in Tibet. Many Tibetans resent their presence, saying they do not bother to learn the language and dominate the region's economy at the expense of the native

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