China has no theological basis to pick the next Dalai Lama: US

China has no theological basis to pick the next Dalai Lama, according to a top United States diplomat, asserting that the Tibetan Buddhists have successfully picked their spiritual leader for......

Dalai uses suicides for political gains: Chinese media

As China grappled to deal with recurring suicides of Tibetan Buddhist monks calling for return of The Dalai Lama, its official media accused the spiritual leader of trying to build a cult similar......

US lawmaker reminds Hu of right abuses in China

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican from Florida, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committtee, personally handed over to visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao a letter she had sent......

Mallika Sherawat glams up India Day parade in US

Braving 92-degree temperature, thousands of people waited agog for hours Sunday on the sidewalks of Oak Tree Road in Edison, New Jersey, for the annual India Day Parade that marked the country's......

Google stops censoring search results in China

Uncertainty loomed over China operations of the world's leading Internet search engine Google as the company stopped censoring web search results and redirected hunt queries from mainland to an......

5 reasons behind the rise of China

A rising China has not only inched closer to the US, it has also developed backward linkages - through the 'disassembly line' - with a host of other countries, including developed ones, says Ashok......

Lessons for Indians from Google China

Probably you guessed it already; yes this is about Google's stance in China. On April 12, 2006, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google; Kaifu Lee, vice president of Google China, and Johnny Chou, president of......

Olympics - Watchdog warns of risks to media

Foreign journalists covering the Beijing Olympics must take care to avoid placing Chinese assistants and news sources at risk of arrest when covering sensitive topics, a US watchdog group said on......

Olympic torch arrives in Japan

Japan called for calm but braced for trouble with tight security on Friday, as low-key protests began ahead of its leg of the Olympic torch relay, following emotional scenes at other venues around......

Olympic torch lands in Bangkok

The Olympic torch landed amid tight security on Friday in the Thai capital, the latest leg of its world tour, with police saying they are ready to stop any attempt by anti-China activists to put......