Hong Kong - Israeli diplomats in China have raised concerns over a national business awards contest with a logo that looks similar to the Nazi SS insignia, a news report said Monday.

Billboard posters for the China Top Brand awards scheme have appeared in Hong Kong with an logo that looks similar to the lightning-strike style insignia used by the German SS, a powerful paramilitary organization, responsible for many of the Nazi's worst crimes.

Johannesburg  - South Africa's popular archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu has threatened to boycott a peace conference planned for next week in Johannesburg after the South African government reportedly denied the Dalai Lama a visa, a newspaper said Sunday.

South Africa's Sunday Independent quoted an angry Tutu as saying: "If His Holiness's visa is refused, then I won't take part in the upcoming 2010 World Cup-related peace conference."

The Nobel Peace Prize winner accused South Africa, which has close ties with China, of "shamelessly succumbing to Chinese pressure" and said he was "ashamed."

Beijing- Police detained nearly 100 people after monks and lay Tibetans attacked a police station in China's western province of Qinghai, state media and Tibetan exiles said on Sunday.

Several hundred people, including about 100 monks from the Ragya monastery, attacked the Gyala township police station in Qinghai's remote Golok (Guoluo) prefecture from Saturday afternoon, the Chinese government's Xinhua news agency said.

New Delhi, Mar 22 : Kim Jong Il, the top leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has said it is the invariable will of DPRK to further consolidate and develop the friendship with China.

Kim said cultural exchange plays an important role in boosting the precious DPRK-China friendship established by late President Kim Il Sung and leaders of the elder generation of China for a long period.

Beijing  - Rescuers were searching on Sunday for about 13 miners trapped underground after a coal shaft flooded in the central Chinese province of Hunan, state media reported.

Water flooded into the mine in Hunan's Changning city from around 5 pm on Saturday, the semi-official China News Service quoted local officials as saying.

Police were looking for the mine owners, who failed to report the accident and fled the scene, making it more difficult to establish the exact number of people trapped underground, the agency said.

The multiple Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire is ready to hit Chinese theatres on March 26.

Lots of films produced in the tinsel town fail to benefit from the propering Chinese cinema market due to the annual quota, and others are thrown out by the censor board.

Chinese censors are cautious of uncomplimentary delineations of the country and its public, explicit sex and aggression and receptive topics including Tibet.

However, “Slumdog Millionaire” cleared Chinese censors without problems.