Train arrives Lhasa, in a ‘great leap west’ The ‘engine’ of Golmud-Lhasa railway    —Dhondup Dolma, DIIR Security stepped up for opening of railway    —ICT The train to the roof of the world    —Lynette Dumble & Susanne Menihane, ZNet ‘Magical road of heaven’    —Pallavi Aiyar, Asian Times The greatest threat to Tibet’s identity    —Richard Gere, The New York Times China’s new instrument    —Willy Lam, China Brief The train to Tibet    —John Ackerly, Wall Street Journal China’s ‘peaceful rise’    —Gurmeet Kanwal, The Tribune

Documentation

• ‘Bring quality back into Buddhist pursuits’
• ‘A thumping majority despite unpopular decisions was astonishing

Interview

• Election results show grass roots support for the administration’s policies

obituary

• In memoriam of Dr. M.S. Verma    —Tsering Phuntsok, DoE

Press

The Sino-Tibetan equation    —Isabel Hilton, The Guardian

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