A senior United Nations official has rejected charges by Burma's military government that the U.N. special envoy for Burma is biased against the ruling junta. "I do not think in any way that his view is biased," U.N. spokesman Kiyotaka

Chinese authorities in China's western Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) have given protesting monks until March 8 to return to Jesho Baikar monastery or face "serious consequences," Tibetan sources say.