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China claims the region where Tawang sits and the area surrounding it as a southern extension of Tibet, which Beijing rules; India has long maintained that the land, which comprises its northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, is an inalienable part of its territory. Tensions over the border dispute have flared recently, raising the specter of a budding rivalry between the two Asian giants who fought a brief, wintry war in 1962. Reports of troop buildups and border incursions have increased. A visit to the state by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in mid-October to campaign in local elections...
...early April 1959, with some 50,000 Chinese soldiers scouring the mountains in search of him, the Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet into northeastern India. Beijing blamed him for fomenting an uprising among Tibetans, which the People's Liberation Army was then quashing. While foreign spies and correspondents filled up sleepy hill stations on the Indian side, the Dalai Lama took refuge in an old monastery, guarded by a detachment of Indian solders and a sect of 600 shaven-headed Buddhist monks. His brief sojourn at the 400-year-old monastery in the town of Tawang would be the first...
When Transformers 2 director Michael Bay snubbed Penn last summer, some on campus took up arms and started an open letter of protest on Facebook. Though in the end, Transformers 2 references neither school, and it is just assumed Shia LaBeouf attends some unnamed [stuck-up] northeastern [safety] school with an orange and black crest...
...Black and White varsity heavyweights finished ninth among collegiate crews, passing by local rivals Northeastern and Dartmouth...
...understand the state of bullfighting in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region, you need look no further than Las Arenas. The striking, late 19th century arena with faux Moorish arches, located near Barcelona's central Plaza de España, once pulled in thousands of bullfighting aficionados for the traditional - and gory - Sunday corrida (the Spanish word for "bullfight"). Today, it is being converted into a shopping mall...