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Yushu ancient "Tibetan Tripitaka" moves into new home
by: kristen zhang | 10:49
The Dongchang "Tibetan Tripitaka" Treasure Hall, a post-disaster renovation project was completed in Gyegu Township in quake-hit Yushu in northwest China's Qinghai.
"Tibet Week" of Expo 2010 Shanghai kicks off
by: Mirenda Wu | 08:37
With the theme of "Heaven in Tibet", the "Tibet Week" during the ongoing Expo 2010 officially kicked off in east China's city of Shanghai Wednesday morning.
Tibet invests 318 mln yuan in wetlands
by: | 07:29
Tibet plans to allocate 318 million yuan ($46 million) for the protection of its fragile high-altitude wetland ecosystem.
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2010-08-21 08:31:00 | by:The Naqu Horse Racing Fair is a grand local festival in the grasslands of northern Tibet Autonomous Region.
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2010-08-17 15:42:00 | by: JanyAfter 9 days of competition, the 10th Sports Meet of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) wrapped up on Aug. 16, 2010. This fruitful sports meet documented 26 new records of 16 games.On the medal tally, delegation of the regional education system ranked No.1, scoring 430 with a total of 27 gold medals.
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2010-08-17 14:05:00 | by: kristen zhangA football match at about 3,700 meters above the sea level has attracted football fans from all across the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) on Aug. 16.
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2010-08-17 09:04:00 | by:The Tigers, a cycling team consists of five youths from Anhui, arrived in Lhasa, Tibet on Aug. 11 and ended their one-month biking trip to promote the most beautiful county Shitai in Anhui Province in China.
MountaineeringOrganization | Hero | Mountain | Tips
- Two frostbitten Spanish mountaineers were successfully resuced by China's Tibet Mountaineering Team and arrived at the Camp One of Mt. Qomolangma on May 26.
- At 04:20 on May 25, 1960, three Chinese mountaineers Wang Fuzhou, Qu Yinhua and Gangbung conquered the world's highest peak Mt Qomolangma from the northern slope for the first time.
- The first Finnish female mountain climber has conquered Mt. Qomolangma on Monday after a month long climbing, reported Finnish media Monday.
- Nepali world cyclist Pushkar Shah scaled Mt. Qomolangma, the world's highest peak on Monday.
- Chinese civil mountaineers encountered bad weather in Mt. Dhaulagiri (8,167 meters) after they atop the seventh highest mountain on May 13, which caused three climbers died.
- Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa as the first climber to have reached the summit of Mt Qomolangma, passed away in 2008 at the age of 88.
- According to incomplete statistics, over 100,000 locals in Qinghai has participated in the toxophily, the most widespread traditional sport in the farming and pasturing areas of Qinghai Province.
- As a part of the annual Shoton Festival celebration, the Damxung Horse Race Festival kicked off on September 1.
The Others
- Starting from Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province on Sept. 30, 15 cyclists arrived in Lhasa via the Sichuan-Tibet route on Oct. 15.
- Currently, the exploration tour booms in Tibet and Tibet's first drift club, Baishui Drift Club starts to offer drift-exploration services to drift lovers from home and abroad.
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