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RELIGION-CHINA
Buddhism Enjoys A Revival
By Mitch Moxley
BEIJING - Quan Zhenyuan discovered Buddhism by accident. After the owner of a vegetarian restaurant here in the Chinese capital gave her a book about the religion, she became hooked. Today, Quan is one of a growing number of urban Chinese who turn to Buddhism for spiritual fulfillment.
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INDIA/CHINA
Dalai Lama’s Border State Visit: Purely Spiritual?
Analysis by Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - It is hard to say whether the Dalai Lama’s sojourn this week in India’s Arunachal Pradesh state—which China claims as southern Tibet—is a purely spiritual exercise or a trip with a deep political mission.
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RIGHTS
Rising China Poses Danger to Peace, Say Nobel Laureates
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - An ascendant China that ignores human rights in Tibet and Xinjiang, poses a danger to world peace, say Nobel laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Jody Williams.
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INDIA/CHINA
Hopes for Early Border Settlement Recede
Analysis by Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - Hopes for an early settlement of the ‘world’s oldest standing border dispute’ receded last week after Asian neighbours China and India engaged in a tit-for-tat spat that ran counter to the spirit of a formal dialogue they are engaged in.
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INDIA/CHINA
Dalai’s Planned Visit to Border State Sparks Row
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - The Dalai Lama’s planned visit to Arunachal Pradesh appears to be a simple, pastoral response to Buddhist flocks in that north-eastern Indian state.
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CHINA-EU
Summit Redefines Diplomatic Boundaries
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - The global economic crisis has helped China and the European Union mend their recent rift over Tibet and human rights, but the two sides remain distrustful of each other’s intentions. Beijing complains that the EU’s crowded agenda makes it lose sight of the bigger picture in dealing with China. Brussels for its part, believes China is exploiting the EU’s divisions and treating the 27-state bloc with ‘diplomatic contempt’ on a range of issues from trade to the Dalai Lama.
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POLITICS-CHINA
Row Over Tibet Escalates
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - China has sealed off Tibet with troops and demanded that the international community recognise the legitimacy of Beijing's historical claims over the Himalayan plateau, escalating a row over its policies there.
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Q&A
Gitmo Uighurs Highlight a Complex Ethnic Problem
Stephen de Tarczynski interviews Uighur activist MAMTIMIN ALA
MELBOURNE - Although United States President Barack Obama was quick to order the closure of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay soon after assuming office, the question of what to do with the roughly 175 current inmates who are unlikely to be prosecuted by the U.S. remains.
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ECONOMY-CHINA
Human Rights Critics Silenced by Meltdown
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - If the global economic downturn is a crisis with a silver lining for cash-rich Chinese companies intent on bargain deals, it is equally so the image-conscious government whose human right critics have been silenced by the need to cooperate with Beijing on overcoming the recession.
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CHINA
Striking Hard in Tibet 50 Years After The Uprising
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - China is preparing for the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising - which saw the Himalayan territory’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, flee into exile - with a 'strike hard' campaign and propaganda on the evils of feudal oppression in pre-1949 Tibet.
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CHINA
Relations With EU May Suffer Over Dalai Lama Visit
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - China has attacked the Dalai Lama over his latest diplomatic forays in Europe, calling the exiled Tibetan leader a separatist and a "political hooligan" and has warned that China-EU relations may suffer.
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POLITICS-CHINA
Tibetan Movement May Dump 'Middle Way'
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - Eight months after Tibet’s capital of Lhasa was rocked by violent anti-Chinese protests positions have hardened, casting gloom on prospects for progress on the Tibetan stalemate.
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CHINA
Tackling Tibet and Taiwan - Differently
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - Chinese negotiators have, this week, discussed Tibet’s quest for genuine autonomy with the Dalai Lama’s representatives and also pushed forward the agenda to establish economic rapprochement with Taipei.
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PARALLEL LIVES: THE DALAI OLYMPICS MEAN TIGHTER SECURITY AT TIBET-INDIA BORDER
by Dorjee
With the Beijing Olympics fast approaching, there will likely be a decrease in the flow of refugees entering India from Tibet because of tightened restrictions at the border. Beijing is intent on projecting the image of a united China and has no desire to have Tibetan dissidents leaving the country to tell the world about their countrymen's plight in China, writes Dorjee, director of the Dharamsala's Office of the Reception Centres which is in charge of Tibetan refugee arrivals in India.
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PARALLEL LIVES: THE DALAI LAMA AND ANDREI SAKHAROV

by Mario Soares
The Dalai Lama has returned to centre stage because of the recent and now quelled uprising of the Tibetans against Chinese domination and the brutal response of the government in Beijing. This was a grave error on China's part, to say the least, just as it is preparing to host the 2008 Olympic games, writes Mario Soares, former president and former prime minister of Portugal
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