Jane Macartney in BeijingChina’s plans to spread its “soft power” will take a great leap forward tomorrow with the start of English language news broadcasts on European supermarket screens (Jane Macartney writes).

Customers surf the Internet at an Internet cafe in Beijing, China, Tuesday, June 30, 2009. A California company that says […]

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A woman uses a laptop at a computer store in Beijing, China, Tuesday, June 30, 2009. A California company that says its software was illegally used in Beijing’s new Internet filter threatened possible legal action as PC makers faced a Wednesday deadline to supply the system with computers. […]

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Wasfia Nazreen

The 17th Gyalwa Karmapa speaks on the preservation of wildlife at Upper TCV School in Dharamsala, India, on Monday, June 29, 2009
Dharamsala: June 29th: What better way to start the week than attending a talk by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa on the preservation of wildlife! That was how the […]

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Ajay Pillarisetti
CRASH COURSE Jed Brody, a physics teacher from Emory College, lecturing to a class of Tibetan monks.
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By Phurbu ThinleyDharamsala, June 29: A visiting delegation of Human rights activists from Nepal have vowed to continue working for the betterment of Tibetan refugees living in the country.

Visiting Human Rights activists from Nepal with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Tibetan leader’s residence in Dharamsala, India, Monday, June 29, […]

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Scores for the 2009 national college entrance examination in the Tibet Autonomous Region were officially released on June 25. Reporters learned from the Tibet Education Examination Institute that a total of 17,849 students in Tibet took the national college entrance examination in 2009. Of these, around 85 percent were from ethnic […]

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Less water flows down China’s two biggest rivers now than 40 years ago because global warming is drying up the wetlands that feed them, a Chinese news agency reported Monday, citing scientists.Xinhua News Agency said scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied changes at the wetlands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in […]

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(TibetanReview.net, Jun30, 2009) China is to “soon” build a railway link between Tibet’s capital Lhasa and Pakistan, reported Telegraphnepal.com Jun 29. The context was Pakistani foreign Secretary Mr Salman Bashir’s meeting in Kathmandu with Nepal’s foreign minister Mrs Sujata Koirala on Jun 28. The report said the route could be used […]

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The visiting foreign Secretary of Pakistan Mr. Salman Bashir met with the foreign minister of Nepal Mrs. Sujata Koirala on Sunday and handed over an invitation to visit Pakistan.
The invitation was forwarded on behalf of the foreign minister of Pakistan Mr. Mohammad Quresi.
During the meeting with the Nepali foreign minister […]

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By Karen Heller
Inquirer Columnist
Giant pandas. Siberian tigers. Brown bears. Republican leaders.These are among the world’s endangered species.Reading the florid e-mail of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, it’s possible to feel a bit sorry for the Grand Old Party as its dignitaries get charred like so much Argentine grilled meat. For a while, Democrats […]

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