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Tibet ,?????? Lhasa to Beijing ??: Qinghai Railroad ‘skytrain’ Railroad Photo Show July 2007…49 hours on the train w/ out getting off….starts in the wee morning hours of Lhasa to landscapes in the wild then on to photos of Chengdu before the earthquake………the video goes way past Chengdu….the very last photo is Tienanmen Square in the rain at night…xie xie ?????? ???? How China is Plundering the Natural Resources of Tibet: woodsmoke.wordpress.com China is incurring huge expenditure in transferring and consolidating the Chinese population in Tibet. Massive investment has been made to build a network of modern highways all over Tibet. China can also boast of having laid the highest railway track in the world that connects Lhasa with Beijing. In fact, China often complains that its civilizing mission in Tibet is costing the government and people of China large amounts in terms of subsidies to an under-developed region. According to official Chinese statistics, the level of annual subsidies to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) in the late 1980s was around 1 billion yuan or 0 million. However, all the infrastructure that China has built in Tibet has not made the lives of the native Tibetans any better; it has only taken the exploitative apparatuses of the Chinese government deeper. Chinas Ministry of Land and Resources has announced monumental new resource discoveries all across Tibet. The findings are the culmination of a secret 7-year, …
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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Ulan Bator, Mongolia by TravelPod blogger Agi_and_rudi titled “The only real city in Mongolia!!” Agi_and_rudi’s travel blog entry: “Ulaanbaatar meaning ‘red hero’ Mongolia is the least densely populated country in the world with 1.6 people per square km! There are 2.9 million people in Mongolia and 1.1 of them live in Ulaanbaatar. It is difficult to imagine that the nineteenth biggest country in the world (1564115 square kilometres) has only one proper city. It is Ulaanbaatar (UB)! UB has grown into a major manufacturing centre and is linked with Russia and China by the Trans Mongolian Railway network. Thus, the reason why we are visiting this unique country. Although, Mongolians use Cyrillic alphabet (like Russians) their language sounds more similar to Chinese. And their religion, Buddhism, is closer to India. Our hostel ‘UB Guest House’ is a perfect place to stay in the city. They are very organised: pick up every guest from the train station, organise a tour through the country side (where everything is included) and even buy you a train ticket to your next destination (for us Beijing). The city streets get very loud during the day from the car horns. Traffic is a mess here and so are the pedestrians. They keep crossing the streets under the red light (even when a traffic policeman is standing right in the middle of the street to regulate the traffic) and then of course drivers keep beeping like mad. We notice quite …
