Downing Street Talks for Chinese Premier
Tony Blair is to hold talks next week with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, Downing Street announced today. The two leaders will meet for talks in Downing Street as part of a European tour by the Chinese prime minister
Chinese Prime Minister Visits Brussels
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is visiting the European Commission in Brussels today. EU officials stress that, coming less than a month after Commission President Romano Prodi visited Beijing, Wen’s trip highlights the rapidly growing rapprochement between the bloc and China.
RITE OF FREEDOM
After the cremation of Thupten Ngodup, when the emotional crowd had finally marched back to McLeod Ganj, a few of us went to pay a visit to his house. It was a brief walk from the cremation-ground by the mountain stream
Tibet’s Meek, Hardly Asking For the Earth
The meek, it is written, shall inherit the earth. Could be. You can certainly bet that some among the meek will be able to claim their inheritance sooner than they will capture the attention of news organizations or the conscience of the United Nations.
TYC led hunger strike concluding ceremony
The Tibetan Youth Congress called off its Indefinite Hunger Strike at the United Nations on May 13, 2004, following a visit UN Assistant Secretary-General Carolyn McAskie at the Hunger Strike venue.
Fossils show Ngari in Tibet was oasis 130 million years ago
Fossils suggest that Ngari Prefecture, the peak of Tibet Autonomous Region, known as the “roof of the world”, was once a land where the climate was mild and humid, and plenty of big arbors were grown some 130 million years ago.