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In a meeting with a visiting Chinese delegation led by Assistant Chinese Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi in his office last week, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said he wanted to

Losar, the ongoing Tibetan New Year, is likely to herald a silent spring. There will be none of the festivities that greet the arrival of spring that marks the most important holiday in the Tibetan calendar

Inside Tibet people have made the decision not to celebrate Losar this year. It appears to be not just an expression of sorrow for those Tibetan shot, tortured and imprisoned in last years uprising, but also an act of defiance against

Chinese leaders have already warned of it being ‘possibly the toughest year’ of the decade. Apart from the global economic slowdown, political dissent in Tibet could shake China in 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is back from Beijing, and the state-run China Daily has hailed her visit as "a relief." The Chinese Communist Party successfully steered the conversation towards the economy and climate change, eclipsing human rights and Tibet

The recent news of the release from house arrest of Pakistan's rogue nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan had leaders and commentators in the free world blowing hot and cold – as usual. The release was condemned

There’s a new law in force in China these days that says the Chinese authorities in future would choose reincarnating Tibetan lamas. Partly in anticipation of such a move and mostly to keep pace with the changing times,

"Chinese political circles get very worried about anniversaries." So says Professor Perry Link, an expert on Chinese human rights at the University of California, Riverside. And this year they have plenty to worry about with 200

Amid news that millions of migrant workers are roaming the Chinese countryside unemployed, a severe drought affecting eight breadbasket provinces and state authorities admitting that 2009 could be a year of unprecedented social unrest

Thirty years ago today, China invaded its one-time Communist ally Vietnam to “teach it a lesson”, to the delight of Beijing’s newfound friend, Uncle Sam, which was still smarting from having lost its own Vietnam War.