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Initially, the Dalai Lama pushed for Tibet's full independence, but since the 1970s he has adopted the "Middle‑Way Approach": accepting Chinese sovereignty but seeking autonomy for Tibet within China.

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At the end of a long road trip through rural China in 2009, American journalist Barbara Demick had an encounter that would ...

Up to a few months ago, Ben Suc was a prosperous village of some thirty-five hundred people. It had a recorded history going back to the late eighteenth century, when the Nguyen Dynasty, which ...

Can you picture what we'll be/ So limitless and free/ Desperately in need of some stranger's hand” - The Doors In the 1990s and 2000s, a l ...

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The moment you drive through the gates, you’re transported to another world—one where industrial magnates built palaces as love letters and where the phrase “a little fountain in the garden” meant a ...

Hollow heifers sport sweaters, photos, and band labels at Old Sturbridge Village CowParade is coming to the 1830s living history experience to draw in new visitors.

By law, organ donations in India are only permitted between close relatives or with special government approval, but traffickers manipulate everything – family trees, hospital records, even DNA tests ...