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      First Beijing-Tibet train begins final leg of maiden journey up Tibetan plateau

      Posted by Billbar

      China's first train from Beijing to Tibet began the final leg of its journey Monday on the world's highest railway, climbing past 13,000 feet on the Tibetan plateau and causing pens and packaged foods aboard to burst in the thin air. Some passengers began breathing piped-in oxygen from tubes to cope with the high altitude. Many Tibetan passengers on the Beijing-Lhasa train spoke glowingly of it, but it was unclear whether these were candid answers, because dozens of Chinese Foreign Ministry officials were also on board.

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    • China's Tibet Railway Ready to Go

      Posted by Billbar from Washington Post

      China unveils an engineering marvel this weekend _ a railway to Tibet that features high-tech systems to stabilize tracks over permafrost and cabins enriched with oxygen to help riders cope with high altitudes. Tibetans loyal to the exiled Dalai Lama and other critics say the $4.2 billion railway is part of a campaign by Beijing to crush Tibetan culture by encouraging an influx of Han Chinese, China's majority ethnic group.

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    annistein comments on:

    Steve Weissman: Tibet and the Games Nations Play

    What can I say about it? To criticise it? No. Fact is always simple. It’s man who has some kind of motive that make it complexed. As a chinese, I have experienced a lot for more than 20 years, and I do know something fo the the government’s operation. But as for Tibet, today I do not want talk of my opinion about. I know someone will say back to me that it si because I am a Chinese that to say good of my own county. However, it will be much better than to say evil of other countries without any effort to find what it is. I just want someone to try to get to China and Tibet to understand what has happened there. Just as I said, say after you have know the truth. Do not just fly the bubble from others’ mouth.

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    9:13 am 4/18/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    Chinese Police Kill Eight in Attack on Tibetan Protesters

    On what basis do you say this?

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    9:59 am 4/14/08
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    kangyingpingg comments on:

    Chinese Police Kill Eight in Attack on Tibetan Protesters

    tibet is a part of china! they tell lies.

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    5:07 am 4/14/08
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    Tony comments on:

    Bring on Lama-Palooza

    support

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    8:01 pm 4/10/08
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    hendii comments on:

    Tibetan monks 'surrounded' by Chinese troops

    NO.China will not fail. I believe foreign  country should not  interfer  other countries fair.Tibet is one region in china since Tang dynasty.  

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    6:35 am 3/23/08
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    michael830 comments on:

    2 dead in Tibet riots with China

    We Chinese don’t know what really happened there, so please send more pictures. Government closed all the news out to other provinces.

    You should be responsible for what you wrote. We need more detailed information from there, thank you.

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    5:06 am 3/17/08
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    sunbal87 comments on:

    Tibetan monks 'surrounded' by Chinese troops

    third world country Mexico conducted 1968 olympics .China will do in 2008 at least as good as Mexico city olympics.It will not be a fiasco.

    sundarrajan balaji

    sunbal87

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    12:44 pm 3/13/08
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