House vote critical of China’s human rights record

The U.S. House of Representatives and a bipartisan criticize China’s human rights commission have called on the Bush administration to promote a resolution at a United Nations conference insisting China halt its violations of human rights.

A Stranger in My Native Land

In the second of his two-part series on travels inside Tibet Tenzig Sonam, a Tibetan poet and film-maker currently living in New York, enters Lhasa, the capital, and finds that none of it is as he had imagined it growing up in exile in India.