Tibet official lauds Everest road
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A top Tibetan official said Wednesday a planned highway to a base camp on Mount Everest would make the site more accessible to tourists and that although there were no plans to build a hotel along the route, he would not rule out such an idea.
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NYINGCHI, China  - To Tibetans, China and the  ruling Communist Party seem to have offered them a clear choice  -- you are either with us or against us.
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It is 45 years since Tibet&#39;s god-king, the Dalai Lama, fled his homeland on horseback as Chinese shells rained down on his capital.
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MOSCOW: A spokesman for the Tibetan exile government in India said yesterday that Russia has issued the Dalai Lama a visa to visit Buddhists in its Kalmykia region and that he could make the trip as early as tomorrow.
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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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The Dalai Lama&#39;s special envoy has arrived in China for talks on the exiled spiritual leader&#39;s aspirations for Tibetan autonomy, the third such visit in three years, officials in Washington said on Tuesday.
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She has championed Tibet, cried about Tibet, marched for Tibet, longed for Tibet. And now, finally, she has been to Tibet. Pema Chagzoetsang, known in Utah as an ardent advocate for her native land and for
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the Dalai Lama for a meeting on Sunday despite opposition from China.
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Nepal's tourism ministry has upheld a claim by mountaineer Pemba Dorji Sherpa that he had scaled Everest in a record time of eight hours and 10 minutes on May 21.
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For a climber, the first time you lay eyes on Everest, it's hard not to think about Edmund Hillary Â and try to imagine what it was like when he and Tenzing Norgay topped out on the world's highest peak shortly before noon on May 29, 1953.
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BERLIN - Defying Chinese criticism and pressure, Chancellor Angela Merkel met the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, yesterday in Berlin, becoming the first German chancellor to do so despite warnings from Beijing that it could damage economic contacts.
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The firm that built the rail link between China and Tibet plans to list shares, Chinese state media reports.
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China starts surfacing an unmade road leading to Everest base camp to aid the Olympic torch procession.
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Days after China bound itself  closer to Tibet with a new railway, a senior official accused  the Dalai Lama, the region&#039;s exiled spiritual leader, of  seeking to split China and play politics with religion.
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The Dalai Lama visited Mongolia's largest Buddhist monastery on Tuesday at the start of a weeklong trip aimed at shoring up Tibet's traditional links with the sparsely populated formerly communist nation.
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Hundreds of Buddhists in southern Russia marched through snow to see and hear the Dalai Lama as he continued a long-awaited visit to the country in spite of Chinese protests.
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Saffron-robed Buddhist monks, Nepali Sherpas and grey-bearded mountaineers paid homage on Tuesday to Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who conquered Everest, as thousands gathered in New Zealand to watch his state funeral.