New Air Route Links Guangzhou and Lhasa, via Shangri-La
A new air route connecting Guangzhou,capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, to Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region will be launched on Saturday.
Shambala
My dinner at Shambala started off with an appetizer of hot sheep’s blood soup followed by fried sheep lung and a zesty ox-tongue chaser. Just kidding, but these are the sorts of food one might expect to be served at local restaurants in Tibet.
Shambala
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Aksai Chin for Arunachal?
An Indian weekly recently ran an interesting cover story on corruption. The editor began by quoting his encounter with a former prime minister who was asked ‘Why couldn’t you do anything to curb corruption in the bureaucracy?’
Tibet: Exiles’ Journey
Tibet’s decades-long struggle for liberty is famous around the world. Less well-known is the tale of how the Tibetan government in exile and large numbers of Tibetans abroad have worked to foster not only the freedom of the homeland from which they have been driven