Xizang, China News

This week's ethnic violence in Urumqi, the capital of China's far western Xinjiang region, rang a second warning bell for Beijing's policy toward minorities just 18 months after a similar outburst by Tibetans in March 2008.

There is little sign yet, though, that the Chinese government is prepared to loosen its iron grip either on Tibet or the restive Muslim Uighur people in Xinjiang, say experts on the two regions. That augurs further unrest, they warn. On Wednesday, President Hu Jintao cut short his visit to the Group of 8 summit to return home to tackle the crisis.

By Li Hongmei, People's Daily Online Rebiya Kadeer, presiding over the 'World Uighur Congress' and the 'Uighur American Association,' denied the accusation of masterminding the July 5th Urumqi bloody riots.

The Chinese government accused Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, of orchestrating the violence - a charge he denied.

Netizens slammed some Western media, including CNN, for biased reporting about the riots in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, which left 156 people dead.

Heavily armed soldiers and riot police managed to keep violence in check Wednesday, but they did nothing to diffuse the tension or deal with the bad blood caused by three days of ethnic riots in Urumqi that have left 156 dead and more than 1,000 wounded.

Sunday's deadly riot in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region bruised the beautiful city of Urumqi and shocked the world, barely 16 months after the nightmarish Lhasa violence that still clings to many Chinese minds.

China's government said at least 140 people were killed in ethnic rioting in the capital of Xinjiang province, and blamed overseas Uighur groups for the violence.

At least 140 people died and more than 800 were injured Sunday and early Monday in the worst ethnic violence to rock China in more than 40 years.

The Chinese state news agency reported Monday that at least 140 people were killed and 816 injured when rioters clashed with the police in a regional capital in western China after days of rising tensions between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese.

At a promotional campaign jointly held by the Consulate General of Nepal in Lhasa, the Nepal Tourism Board, and the China Tibet Tourism Bureau, an official from the Consulate General of Nepal promised to 22 travel wholesalers that in the near future travel agencies in Tibet would be able to offer visa services to Chinese tourists who want to visit ...

China's state news agency has launched a trial run of an international English-language TV news service, part of an increasingly sophisticated propaganda drive to boost the country's image abroad and lift its global media presence.

Tibetan monks and nuns spend their lives studying the inner world of the mind rather than the physical world of matter.

A renovation project of the Drepung Monastery, in southwest China's Tibet, started on Thursday as part of the country's efforts to better protect cultural heritage in the autonomous region.

The Chinese paramilitary police who usually patrol Tibet's often tense capital went to work in black and yellow track suits last week instead of their green uniforms.

India has just completed one of the most stunning exercises in modern governance.

Children practice dance moves on the floor during a dance class at the Lhasa Experimental Primary School in Lhasa, China.

China's chest-thumping at the widely publicised 60th anniversary celebrations of the People's Liberation Army Navy in April was carefully choreographed to demonstrate that it is ready to be acknowledged as a major global power.

New Delhi/Itanagar/Tezpur: India is ramping up its military deployment along the border with China, positioning two army divisions, each comprising around 25,000 to 30,000 personnel, as also a squadron of frontline Sukhoi Su-30 MKI combat jets at a key airbase in the northeast, military officials said.

The first batch of "China's Famous Historical and Cultural Streets" was formally announced on June 11 at Confucius Temple and Imperial College in Beijing.

With things expected to get worse before they get better, we are anticipating further grim news from China in H109, and reiterate our below-consensus 5.6% growth forecast for the year.