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There are, by one returning exile's count, 238 dance halls and karaoke bars along the main streets of Lhasa, and 658 brothels. Plastic palm trees and mushrooms that play pop songs dot the shiny boulevards. And where in 1978 there were fewer than 500 individually run enterprises in the whole of the Tibet Autonomous Region, more than 5,000 new such enterprises came up in 1993 alone. The Chinese who have occupied Tibet for almost half a century may have failed to destroy it with their bulldozers and guns, but the Lhasa of old has nonetheless been developed...
...Personally, from my childhood, there is a Muslim community in Lhasa [Tibet's capital] for the last four centuries. Very peaceful. Very gentle. No quarrels. Nowadays, in the outside world, sometimes people get the impression Muslims are more militant. I think that is wrong. I think these wrong impressions must be eliminated. They are no good for the world. [Islam] is one of the important world religious traditions that we must respect...
Last September the Chinese government celebrated the 20th anniversary of the carving up of Tibet. To observe the occasion, a delegation of Chinese officials flew from Peking to Lhasa armed with gifts of silk, desk clocks and tea. Tibetans do not need desk clocks or tea. They would appreciate having returned to them their rights, their cultural identity and their national leaders. As the eldest brother of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, I can tell you that Tibetans are waiting for these reforms before they will nominate Deng Xiaoping Man of the Year. Thubten Jigme Norbu Bloomington...
...kids who had been tied to a bed for years so they didn't hurt themselves. Some couldn't walk because their parents hadn't taught them." Appalled, Tenberken, with support from her Dutch partner Paul Kronenberg, a development aid worker she met in 1997 in a hostel in Lhasa (the capital of the remote Chinese autonomous region), rode to the rescue. She disentangled the reams of red tape the Tibetan authorities threw at her and finally, in May 1998, opened a boarding school for visually impaired children in Lhasa. "We faced a lot of prejudice and bureaucracy," recalls...
...RELEASED. PHUNTSONG NYIDRON, 37, last of a group of 14 Tibetan "singing nuns" who attracted worldwide attention after recordings of them singing proindependence songs were smuggled out of a Chinese prison; in Lhasa, Tibet. Nyidron was jailed in 1989 for "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement" after participating with other nuns in a public protest...