Potala Palace, the jewel of Tibet, overrun with tourists
Forty-years ago during the Cultural Revolution, it took an edict from China’s then premier Zhou Enlai to protect the Potala Palace from the destruction of the infamous Red Guards.
Exiles’ hopes for a free Tibet dimming
Time, Tibetan exiles fear, is running out. Since fleeing into exile in India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, the Tibetan spiritual leader has personified his Himalayan nation’s
Red-faced China rushes to woo Nepal Maoists
With Nepal inching towards a new, interim government where the Maoist rebels would be a key partner, a red-faced China is rushing to mend fences with the guerrillas it once branded