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...biggest and brightest on the Tibetan Plateau. Given that it's just two days' drive from Chengdu, capital of China's Sichuan province, it's also one of the more accessible of the summer festivals that take place across what was once the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Kham-a sweeping expanse of grassland now incorporated into Sichuan, the Tibetan Autonomous Region, and the provinces of Qinghai and Yunnan. Many of the thousands of Tibetan nomads (or Khampas)-swathed in fox-lined cloaks, their necks strewn with red coral, turquoise and amber-travel for several weeks to reach Litang...
...have engaged in a kind of telepathy. You have managed to escape the mundane realm of ordinary communication and entered a place where souls communicate directly. It's cooler than instant messaging. Cherif Mbaw, 33, is a Senegalese singer-guitarist living in Paris; the songs on his brilliant CD Kham Kham are in his native Wolof. But when Mbaw, with his beatific tenor, soars into a passage of staccato vocals and jittery guitar work on Saay Saay, you know exactly what he means even if you don't know what he's saying. His intent is in his inflection...
When Tapontsang was released from prison in 1986, she said, she returned to Kham-her home region-in Tibet...
RELEASED. PHAM DUC KHAM, 65, Vietnamese dissident who circulated the Freedom Forum; before completing his 12-year sentence; in Hanoi...
...Kham explains that he will go back to jihad once his brother recovers. And Rahmat Hussain? He too will want to return to the fight, Tor Kham says. Asked how he knows that, Tor Kham shakes his head. After a long silence, he looks away and says, "There is no jihad for him now. He is in the world of pain...