November 25th, 2008 - 7:55 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, Nov.25 (ANI): United States foreign policy would continue to be guided by its national interest as it had been since the World War II, feels Brajesh Mishra, National Security ...
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November 15th, 2008 - 6:30 pm ICT by ANI
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Beijing, Nov.15 (ANI): China has expressed resolute opposition to a meeting between the Dalai Lama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Poland planned for next month.
Sarkozy, whose country holds the EU''s ...
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October 5th, 2008 - 4:24 am ICT by IANS
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Beijing, Oct 5 (Xinhua) China Saturday criticised the US government's decision to sell arms, including Patriot III anti-missile system, Apache helicopters and other equipments worth $6.5 billion, to Taiwan.The Chinese government firmly ...
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September 27th, 2008 - 5:33 pm ICT by IANS
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Kathmandu, Sep 27 (IANS) Nepal's northern neighbour China has announced a military aid of NRS 100 million (over $1.3 million) for Nepal, the first military aid received by the new Maoist-led government ...
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September 10th, 2008 - 11:14 pm ICT by IANS
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Colombo, Sep 10 (IANS) Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi held talks with President Mahinda Rajapaksa here Wednesday and assured his country's "continued support" for Sri Lanka's sovereignty, territorial integrity and efforts to ...
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August 11th, 2008 - 4:04 pm ICT by ANI
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Beijing, Aug.11 (ANI): Referring to Taiwan, Chinese President Hu Jintao has said that the Chinese government will never change its One China policy, and urged the United States to support the ...
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July 11th, 2008 - 1:49 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 11 (IANS) The Nepal government has slapped a two-year ban on two Western climbers for the first time in the mountaineering history of the Himalayan nation, which ...
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July 10th, 2008 - 8:16 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, July 10 (ANI): Saying Mr. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom''s Government in Maldives is disturbing the balance of power in the Indian Ocean by wooing China, the Presidential candidate of Opposition ...
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July 1st, 2008 - 9:01 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 1 (IANS) Though Nepal police Tuesday arrested a group of Tibetan monks and nuns who were leading a peace march to the Tibet border, a second group of ...
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June 17th, 2008 - 2:43 pm ICT by IANS
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Kathmandu, June 17 (IANS) Beijing has accused exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama of fomenting the Tibetan protests that have been rocking Nepal's capital city Kathmandu through a leader holding "secret meetings with ...
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June 14th, 2008 - 1:06 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, June 14 (IANS) The northern tip of Nepal adjoining Tibet is facing a famine after China closed its border in a bid to crush protests by pro-Tibet activists. Nepal's ...
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April 27th, 2008 - 8:59 pm ICT by admin
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Xinhua
Beijing, April 27 (Xinhua) China and France have agreed to "cherish and maintain" a comprehensive strategic partnership after relations were strained following recent disturbances during the Paris leg of the Olympic torch ...
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April 27th, 2008 - 7:35 pm ICT by admin
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Xinhua
Beijing, April 27 (Xinhua) China Sunday said it hoped France would take concrete steps to resolve the recent irritants in bilateral relations and promote ties. "We hope France will pay great attention ...
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April 25th, 2008 - 7:01 am ICT by admin
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DPA
Dhaka, April 24 (DPA) China and Bangladesh agreed Thursday to step up bilateral economic and trade relations based on decades of close political ties, officials said. The agreement came after formal ...
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April 24th, 2008 - 9:43 pm ICT by admin
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Xinhua
BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao Thursday urged France to work together to strengthen bilateral relations. Wen made the remark while meeting former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and ...
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April 18th, 2008 - 12:34 am ICT by admin
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DPA
Berlin, April 17 (DPA) German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose meeting with the Dalai Lama caused a chill in relations with China last year, called Thursday for continued dialogue with Beijing over Tibet's ...
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April 16th, 2008 - 12:14 am ICT by admin
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DPA
Berlin, April 15 (DPA) German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier renewed his call Tuesday for China to begin talks on the Tibet question. A German Foreign Office spokesman said Steinmeier had called on ...
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April 12th, 2008 - 1:11 pm ICT by admin
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Xinhua
Sanya (China), April 12 (Xinhua) Chinese President Hu Jintao said here Saturday that the Tibet problem is entirely an internal issue of China. "Our conflict with the Dalai clique is not an ...
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March 31st, 2008 - 7:53 pm ICT by admin
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Coimbatore, March 31 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Monday warned that supporting an independent Tibet would be a "great disservice" to India, which faced many separatist movements. ...
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March 28th, 2008 - 4:07 pm ICT by admin
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, March 28 (IANS) Three dozen Tibetan teenagers scaled the walls of the UN headquarters here Friday to register their protest against the crackdown by Chinese authorities on their people ...
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March 28th, 2008 - 2:05 pm ICT by admin
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(Olympics Boycott Issue)
Xinhua
Montevideo, March 28 (Xinhua) Uruguay's Olympic Committee (COU) declined to involve politics in Beijing Olympic Games and reiterated that athletes from this South American country will participate in the August ...
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March 24th, 2008 - 6:46 pm ICT by admin
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, March 24 (IANS) Even as Nepal's multi-party, pro-democracy government allowed Bhutanese refugees to exit the country safely and make a fresh start in the US, riot police here Monday ...
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March 23rd, 2008 - 8:04 am ICT by admin
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DPA
Washington, March 23 (DPA) US President George W. Bush Saturday congratulated Ma Ying-jeou on his election as Taiwan's next president, and urged him to work closely with China in keeping peace in ...
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March 22nd, 2008 - 10:36 am ICT by admin
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, March 22 (IANS) As Nepal gears up for its first constituent assembly elections next month, the nation will also see the unprecedented spectacle of the entire cabinet of ministers ...
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March 21st, 2008 - 11:33 pm ICT by admin
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(Lead)
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The Dalai Lama arrived in New Delhi Friday evening for a week of Buddhist discourses, hours after a group of Tibetan youth managed to scale the Chinese ...
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March 21st, 2008 - 6:21 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) As the Dalai Lama arrives in the national capital Friday night, China has attacked "the Dalai clique" for allegedly masterminding violence in Lhasa a week ago and ...
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March 20th, 2008 - 6:29 pm ICT by admin
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Kathmandu, Mar 20 (ANI): Nepal Police on Thursday arrested around twenty-four Tibetan refugees as they were about to stage a sit-in in front of the United Nations (UN) building here.
Human Rights ...
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March 20th, 2008 - 5:33 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Kathmandu, March 20 (DPA) An international human rights organization Thursday described Nepalese police action on Tibetan protesters as "excessive" and called for respect of rights to peaceful assembly. The US based Human ...
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March 18th, 2008 - 8:38 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Taipei, March 18 (DPA) Taiwan Tuesday rapped China for souring cross-strait relations by defying the sovereignty of the island and threatening to attack it. "The Republic of China (Taiwan) is a democratic, ...
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March 18th, 2008 - 5:33 pm ICT by admin
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Kathmandu, Mar 18 (ANI): Close on the heels of protests in Tibetan capital Lhasa, security has been beefed up along the Nepal-China border.
Border areas in Sindhupalchowk and Morang districts are under ...
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