Tibet clings to frontier life as modern China encroaches
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Chinese minders keep a watchful eye on journalists in the ancient Buddhist theocracy.
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China's plan to cut coal use has brought electricity to nomads and hopes for cleaner air by 2020.
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PINGXIANG, China  - At a dusty border crossing on a remote section of the China-Vietnam border, Puzhai looks more like a railway crossing than an entry point into the world's most resource-ravenous economy.
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China hoped to become a highly competitive producer of crocodile meat, hides and shoes, but that dream has been difficult to realize.
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Beijing - The Tibetan capital Lhasa has launched a renovation drive to keep its original ethnic flavour after years of unrestrained urban development filled the city with modern architecture, China&#39;s state media said Monday.
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Chinese director Wang Quan'an says his  film about Mongolian herders is for posterity, as economic  pressures force them from the windswept steppes to crowded  cities and extinguish their way of life.
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Many travelers are chasing what may be a modern-day version of an old human impulse â to behold an untrammeled frontier.
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Ribbons of color, streaming against cobalt skies: Every house, every mountain pass, every monastery in Tibet bears fluttering flags known as r&#39;ung r&#39;ta, &quot;wind horses,&quot; upon whose colorful fabrics prayers are written.
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The new China is driven by tensions between authoritarianism and something beyond.
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A glimpse of the real Shangri-la Famed for its astonishing biodiversity, western Yunnan province borders eastern Tibet and well before the official boundary a strong Tibetan influence is clear. Culturally, the region's people represent an array of ethnic groups.
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China has started improving the road to Mount Everest on the Tibet side to make the trip to the world's highest mountain easier for bearers of the Olympic flame, Xinhua news agency reported.
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A co-op of painters in Tibet are attempting to remake a culture bound by centuries of tradition and hemmed in by narrow stereotypes.
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Many endangered species are under threat from growing prosperity in China, where exotic animals are butchered for gourmet banquets, exotic medicines or luxury goods.
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To spur rural economies, China is supporting entrepreneurial ventures with Tibetan herders.
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LHASA, China  - On a dusty river bed in the shadow  of the Potala Palace, home of Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama, a  bridge is rising that China says will bring prosperity to the  Roof of the World.
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China has moved more people out of poverty than any other country in recent decades, but places like southern Henan Province still remain destitute.
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The Dalai Lama said Thursday that China is taking an increasingly harsh stance on Tibet and he appealed for international help during a visit to Rome.