Group: China demolishes Tibetan statue
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Chinese authorities have demolished a statue of a Buddhist master at Tibet's oldest monastery, an activist group said Friday, the latest act in what critics say is an effort by Beijing to dilute Tibet's unique Buddhist culture.
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Archaeologists have recovered more than 1,000 artifacts at sites being prepared for the 2008 Olympics, but elsewhere in China, they are often in a losing race against bulldozers.
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A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit a remote and sparsely inhabited part of the Tibetan plateau in western China on Wednesday, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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China will bar dissidents from a weekend memorial for Zhao Ziyang, a former Communist Party leader ousted in 1989 after sympathizing with Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, but will allow some 2,000 other mourners to take part, an activist close to Zhao's family said Friday.
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In a blast of harsh rhetoric, China lashed out Thursday at the Dalai Lama and critics of Beijing's support for Sudan
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"It would have been the final tombstone for this temple"  Italian police have recovered an ancient Greek temple dug up in southern Italy by a construction crew who had dumped or looted the prized artifacts and begun to pour cement over the ruins, authorities said Tuesday.After receiving information about the discovery during construction work on a tourist resort on the coast of southern Calabria, police used helicopters to locate the site near the town of Crotone, said art squad officials from the Carabinieri paramilitary police.More than 50 artifacts, including columns and mosaics, had been excavated from the site and used to decorate another hotel complex nearby, while other pieces had been placed in a dump to be reused as construction material. Read more
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The United States has "gravely undermined" relations with China by giving the Dalai Lama an award, the Chinese government said Thursday.
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BEIJING - China warned the United States yesterday that its honoring of the Dalai Lama "gravely undermined" relations between the two countries and demanded Washington stop supporting the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader and take steps to repair ties.
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ZAGREB, Croatia  - An explosive device knocked off  the head of a statue of late Yugoslav communist leader Marshal  Josip Broz Tito in his native village, state news agency Hina  reported Monday.
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Rights groups express concern about reports of clashes in Tibet between Chinese police and Buddhist monks.
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The Chinese government is neglecting and actively undermining the Tibetan language as part of continuing efforts to dilute the region's unique culture, a human rights group said on Thursday.
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Talks aimed at freeing two Chinese engineers taken hostage by al-Qaeda-linked militants in a lawless region near the Afghanistan border have broken down and tribal elders
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Foreign activists pushing for greater autonomy for Tibet have staged a demonstration in Beijing. Police moved in swiftly to detain two of the demonstrators after they unfurled a banner calling for a boycott
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An iconic portrait of Mao Zedong,   founder of Communist China, has been spared the auction block   and will be permanently preserved in a museum, state media   reported.
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"The Chinese authorities are really stepping up their anti-Dalai Lama rhetoric and propaganda"  BEIJING - Chinese authorities have been forcing Tibetans to sign a petition opposing the Dalai Lama's return, a London-based group said, in apparent retaliation for the award of a high U.S. ... via Reuters
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The United States has protested to China over the removal of seven American members of a Buddhist group from a temple in the Inner Mongolia region, the State Department said.
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The National Park Service wants to demolish a visitor center on one of the most significant sites of the Gettysburg battlefield.