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China urges Nepal to ban anti-China activities

A Tibetan refugee marches toward Tibet to protest against the Chinese government, at Andheri town, about 30 kilometres from the Nepal-China border, on 26 June 2009

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KATHMANDU, Nepal, 1 July 2009 (IANS) — Fretting at the resumption of anti-China protests in Nepal by Tibetan refugees, Beijing has sent a delegation to urge the new government of Nepal to quell them. A politburo member of the Communist Party of China met Nepal's Foreign Minister to register their concern at the Tibetan protests calling for a 'Free Tibet'.

Customers use computers at an internet cafe in Hefei, Anhui province, 1 July 2009 China's Internet backdown lauded by firms, activists

BEIJING, China, 1 July 2009 (Reuters) — China's ambitions to strengthen control of the Internet with filtering software became a show of the limits of its power.

Nirupama Rao, India's ambassador to China, speaks during the Global Business Forum in Macau on 12 June 2009 Envoy to China named India's new foreign secretary

NEW DELHI, India, 30 June 2009 (The Times of India) — India's Ambassador to China Nirupama Rao was on Tuesday named as the next foreign secretary to succeed Shivshankar Menon.

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