by Shaun Tandon
WASHINGTON – Weeks after warning that ties were in disarray, China is signaling a readiness to work with the United States but fresh disputes could set back relations just as quickly, analysts say.
China on Monday praised the “positive attitude” of President Barack Obama after he voiced support for a greater relationship with the […]

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Ngawang C. Drakmargyapon
Phayul Special Correspondent

Interior Minister Pascal Couchepin shakes hands with the Dalai Lama at an event at the the Federal Institute of Technology, August 5, 2005(Keystone)file photo
Geneva, 30 March - According to news appearing in the Swiss media, Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama will join a public rally in Zurich on 10 […]

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Dalai Lama Juggles Dilemmas
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Published: March 31, 2010
“The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom,” a documentary by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, is so awkwardly executed that at first it may come across as just another chorus of a familiar song: that Tibetans think they have been done terrible injustices by China. […]

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The Sun Behind the Clouds,” a movie about the Dalai Lama which opens today in New York, has China’s Communist bosses seeing red.
China’s leaders were so incensed by the film, screened at the Palm Springs Film Festival in January, that they pulled a Chinese movie, “City of Life and Death,” from the event.
Now Film Forum […]

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By Thais Portilho-Shrimpton »
A daredevil grandmother who has performed extreme stunts for charity is going on a trek abroad.
Olive Sorrill, 74, from Banstead, is going on a 9km trek to Everest Base camp, at 5,150m of altitude, to raise funds for St Raphael’s Hospice in North Cheam.
Last year, the mother-of-four and grandmother-of-five was the […]

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By Shaun Tandon (AFP) – 17 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Weeks after warning that ties were in disarray, China is signaling a readiness to work with the United States but fresh disputes could set back relations just as quickly, analysts say.
China on Monday praised the “positive attitude” of President Barack Obama after he voiced support for […]

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On the afternoon of March 30, 2010, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Qin Gang held a regular press conference and answered questions.
Qin Gang: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I have two announcements to start with.
First, at the invitation of the Chinese Government, Princess Sirindhorn of the Kingdom of Thailand will visit China from April 3 […]

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Google isn’t a journalistic enterprise but it certainly relies for much of its content on independent, credible information. That has made its foray into the world’s most populous nation a four-year headache.
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Google’s Hong Kong search engine has been largely blocked for Chinese users after the search company changed a setting.

Published: 7:18PM BST 30 Mar 2010
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Google shut down its Chinese search engine last week
Many users in China reported being unable to get search results from Google today and were instead getting […]

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Even Google’s detractors have to admire its China withdrawal. The move was not only right, but also counter to corporate interests.
 
By Edward WassermanGoogle, the media giant that makes its money by running the most successful Internet search engine on earth, has its fans, but I have never been one of them.
True, as Google labored to […]

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