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The authorities in Lhasa are planning to demolish the larger part of the remaining village of Shol at the foot of the Potala Palace, former winter residence of the Dalai Lama, to make way for a square and a museum.

Herald Correspondent Hamish McDonald, who spent a week in Tibet, found its citizens in retreat. Less than four years from now, a train unlike any other will rumble across the 4000-metre high Tibetan plateau.

Tibet is modernising rapidly, thanks to booming China's billions, but at what cost to its unique culture? The hottest nightclub on the roof of the world sits between an enormous concrete monument to Chinese rule and Potala Palace

Voice of America (VOA), in an editorial quoting United States officials, says the Chinese Government is not living up to its human rights commitments. The editorial, broadcast on August 26, 2003

It is nearly 100 years since Col Francis Younghusband's machine guns killed 700 Tibetan warriors in four minutes in the Tibetan plain on the "roof of the world".

Negotiations between Tibet's government in exile and leaders in Beijing have prompted international speculation that the Dalai Lama may be closer to a return to his homeland. But in the monasteries and temples of Tibet

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The bridge over the river at Lhasa is more than just another Chinese construction site. The terminus of the Tibet railway, China's latest super-project to defeat nature with engineering is also the hook on a fishing line.

On a research project for the United Nations, professor Tom Nazario interviewed Tibetan children who had crossed the icy Himalayas searching for refuge and the Dalai Lama. After he was done, Nazario kept returning to the Indian village where many of the refugees lived

Washington, August 29 - Ignoring China's objections to the visit of Dalai Lama to America, the United States has said that the revered religious leader would meet "appropriate" US officials during his visit next month.