Beijing - Shares on China's two stock markets jumped by about 2 per cent on Monday, continuing an upward trend from last week.

The key Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks shares traded in foreign and local currencies, rose by 44.05 points, or 2.22 per cent, to end the day at 2,030.49 points.

The smaller Shenzhen Composite Index also gained nearly 2 per cent as the markets were buoyed by rising airline stocks after reports that the government planned to invest 3 billion yuan (440 million dollars in China Eastern and China Southern airlines.

New Delhi - More than 600 exiled Tibetan leaders gathered in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala Monday to air their views and aspirations on the best course of action for the Tibetan cause.

The situation in Tibet was serious and at this "critical stage" all Tibetans had to come together to discuss their views on what future action needed to be taken, Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile said in his opening speech.

The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, had called for the four-day special meeting, saying that nothing substantive had been achieved in several rounds of talks with the Chinese leadership on greater autonomy for Tibetans within China.

Shanghai  - Novak Djokovic has become a massive danger to the 2009 fightback dreams of Roger Federer after the resurgent Serb won the Masters Cup title at the weekend.

Through his 6-1, 7-5 defeat of Nikolay Davydenko at the Qi Zhong stadium, world number three Djokovic has now climbed to within a hair-thin 10 points of the Swiss star, who was knocked out in the group stage at a year-end event for the first time in his career as he lost to Andy Murray.

Dharamsala, Nov 16 : Envoys of the Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader in-exile said on Sunday that talks with China were a ''total failure'' and were unyielding.

The envoys held a news conference in Dharamsala the seat of the Tibetan government in exile after returning from the ninth round of talks with China since 2002 and the first since the Beijing Olympic Games.

New Delhi - Envoys for the Dalai Lama said Sunday that China made it clear in recent talks that it has no interest in a serious solution to the question of Tibet's status.

Speaking in Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government-in- exile, the envoys said they were disappointed with the Chinese stance during the negotiations.

Envoy Kasur Lodi Gyari said that in the talks in early November, Chinese officials categorically rejected points in a memorandum from the Dalai Lama that called for more autonomy for Tibetans living in China. Calls for protection of the Tibetan language and culture were termed "secessionist," said Gyari.

Beijing - Twenty-one people are feared dead after a cave-in at a tunnel under construction for a subway line in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, state media said on Sunday. 

Rescuers had recovered three bodies by Sunday morning and held little hope of finding 18 missing construction workers alive, the official Xinhua news agency said. 

"There is a slim chance for the survival of trapped workers, because of heavy flooding in the crater," the agency quoted Wang Guangrong, a spokesman for the rescue services, as saying. 

The water in the hole left by the cave-in had fallen to about 3 metres after reaching 6 metres on Saturday, Wang said.