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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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CHINA: Quake Helps Mend Image After Tibet Crackdown
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - A sense of solemnity has enveloped most activities in the Chinese capital these days. Even the avant-garde shows in town strike a note of bereavement for the 50,000 people estimated to have perished in the deadly earthquake this week.
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JAPAN/CHINA: Tibet Haunts Hu Jintao's 'Historic' Visit
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO - Although the Japanese government is keen not to embarrass Chinese President Hu Jintao, while here on a ‘historic’ five-day state visit, the Tibet question does not seem to go away.
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CHINA: Talks With Dalai Lama's Envoys Leading Nowhere
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - With Tibetan unrest smouldering and international pressure building up on Beijing to negotiate with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, Chinese officials have met with his envoys and pledged more talks in the future.
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JAPAN: Zenkoji Temple Leads Pro-Tibet Protests
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO - As Olympic torchbearer Senichi Hoshino started the Japanese leg of the relay in Nagano -- home of the 1998 Winter Games -- a prayer vigil began at the landmark Zenkoji Buddhist shrine in the city for those who have died in Tibet following the Mar.10 crackdown.
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AUSTRALIA: Olympic Torch Set to Light Passions
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - With demonstrations and counter-demonstrations anticipated this week when the Olympic torch relay makes its way through Canberra, a leading Chinese student’s association has called for politics to make way for harmony.
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CHINA: Peeved at 'Insults' to Olympic Flame
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - When the Eiffel Tower was lit up in red to celebrate the Chinese New Year in 2004 during the year of China in France, Chinese people generously professed their love for all things French. "The warmth the Chinese felt could not be described in words," gushed the People’s Daily.
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INDIA: China Keeps Torch, Tibetans Get Media Mileage
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - With the Olympic torch passing safely through India, home of the government-in-exile of the Dalai Lama, China got what it wanted. But then so did the large community of Tibetan expatriates in this country: publicity for their cause.
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RIGHTS-FIJI: Pro-Tibet Protestors Arrested, Face Charges
By Shailendra Singh
SUVA - Civil society organisations and a major trade union in Fiji have condemned the detention of 17 protestors for holding a peaceful vigil outside the Chinese embassy here to condemn deaths in Tibet following an army crackdown.
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Q&A: 'China Paying a Reputational Price'
Interview with Human Rights Watch chief, Kenneth Roth
TOKYO - Kenneth Roth has been executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) since 1993. In Tokyo to set up a new office for the rights lobby Roth discussed with IPS correspondent Catherine Makino such issues as China, the Olympics and hotspots like Darfur, Burma, Sudan and Bangladesh.
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CHINA: Minority Outbursts - More Than Bad Olympics PR
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - As the outburst of anger among China’s restive ethnic minorities spreads, the danger for Chinese communist leadership is more than a a public relations fiasco ahead of the all-important Beijing Olympic games but a serious threat to its mandate, analysts here say.
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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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