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With all the negative press about Malaysia especially stories about extreme Islamists activities, the high price of alcohol and political turmoil, it’s hardly surprising that tourists numbers have dived since last year. To be fair however, this is a great place for good and reasonably-priced food at all hours of the day.  Despite endless concrete [...]

Singing patriotic songs ala communist China during the height of the Cultural Revolution. Chinese-style blind allegiance to political leaders appears to have surfaced in Tibet. Note the place - horse-riding dance festival in Gyantse, Tibet.

Parading Beijing-approved child reincarnations at the Gyantse Horse-riding dance festival. Reincarnations of high-ranking lamas are widespread in Tibet. One wonders [...]

Beijing should be happy its massive PR campaign in Tibet has reaped great rewards - public allegiances of support at the traditional horse-racing festival in a small town, a few thousand miles from Beijing. Note Deng Xiao Peng’s picture there as well.

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With Tibet in the news, I can’t help recalling of the time I spent in Tibet in August 2005. It was quite a revelation. Hostilities were already boiling underneath the veneer of peace and prosperity that the Chinese invader government took pains to project. It started at the border between Nepal and Tibet. When the [...]

I am the kind of tourist the Chinese Government would love to ban, or even imprison as a lesson to others. I had not only committed a crime in their soil, I am also guilty of attempted bribery of a Chinese official.
The year was 2005 and it was my last day in Tibet before I [...]