Originating from Tibet, the Lhasa Apso is a distinctive dog with excess facial hair and a long coat. They were originally bred by monks to help guard palaces and monasteries, which makes for a rather ...

LHASA, China, March 27 -- EDITOR'S NOTE: Charles Hutzler, Beijing bureau chief for the Associated Press, was in a group of foreign journalists that was taken on a government-arranged trip to the ...