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Stone Carvings from the Qing Dynasty Found in Chamdo In the middle of March,a group of stone carvings-originating from the Qing Dynasty-were found at Taktse Village of Lhatse Township in Palbar of Chamdo. Of around 140 stone carvings,the biggest one is 85 cm high and 64 cm wide.Most of them are small and 25 cm is usual. Experts found the carvings were colourfully painted,highly detailed and lifelike in execution.     

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The 2nd Ceremony for Conferring Senior Tibetan Buddhist Degree On October 10th of 2006, the 2nd “mtho ramspa“ degree conferring ceremony of the Tibetan monastic system was held at the Tibetan-language Senior Buddhist College in the Yellow Temple (Lhakhang Serpo). 11 monks are conferred with a “mtho ramspa“ degree.     

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Stone Carvings from the Qing Dynasty Found in Chamdo In the middle of March,a group of stone carvings-originating from the Qing Dynasty-were found at Taktse Village of Lhatse Township in Palbar of Chamdo. Of around 140 stone carvings,the biggest one is 85 cm high and 64 cm wide.Most of them are small and 25 cm is usual. Experts found the carvings were colourfully painted,highly detailed and lifelike in execution.     

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China Exhibition on Contemporary Tibetan Paintings Held in Sidney The exhibitioin was held in the Sofitel Wentworth Sydney Hotel in the evening of March 22, 2006. The three-week exhibition was sponsored the Sidney Wentworth Art Gallery, the China Tibetan Association of Literary and Art Circles, the Li Keran Art Foundation and the Chinese Consulate General in Sidney. It showed some 60 works by 10 contemporary Tibetan painters.     

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Folk TTM Doctor Won Ph.DOn April 23, 2004, at the 43rd World Natural Medical Science Conference, Chimu Lobsang Dainzin was conferred Ph.D degree together with three TCM doctors. Chimu is a famous traditional Tibetan medicine (TTM) doctor.Construction of Wute Railway Bridge BeginsOn May 18, construction of the Wute Bridge began for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. Located inside Damx-ung, Lhasa City, the concrete bridge     

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ART EXHIBITION ON 50-YEAR ACHIEVEMENTThe exhibition shows more than 200 pieces of calligra-phy and paintings from in and outside China.They tell ofchanges that have taken place over the past 50 years sincehe peaceful liberation of Tibet in 1951.     

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After crossing a wooden bridge covered in dust, we arrived at a transportation station and post office built of wooden boards and sheet iron. This was Wanwo,and we had lunch there.     

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New Members of Tibet UniversityA ceremny was held on the morning of September 28 in Tibet University to mark the establishment of the university's College of Engineering, College of Economics and Management, College of Continued Education, Teachers' College, and Public Education Department. The university gained assistance from Nanjing University, Southwest Finance University, Southwest Communicatons University, and Sichuan University. The PRC State Council has approved construe-     

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Tibetan telephone coverage reaches 70 percent of the population By the end of 2010,the fiber optic communications network in Tibet had reached 37.5 thousand kilometers,of which 2.25 thousand     

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Tibet Elected New Chairman Losang Gyaltsen was elected the new chairman of Tibet Autonomous Regional(TAR)at the close of the first session of the 10th TAR People’s Congress on Jan.29.After his election,he said that the regional government will deepen reform and opening up for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and that harmony and stability is an essential guarantee for Tibet’s development and prosperity.     

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TIBET APPROACHES INFORMATION ERAIn 2000, Tibet joined hands with the United Statesto start the international express delivery service,develop postal service software, open the digital program controlled exchanges and TV telephone conference system, and bu…     

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1.2 Million Tibetan Farmers and Herdsmen Relocated to New Houses
Before January of 2010 the Tibetan local government, in order to improve housing conditions, allocated a total of 2.86 billion Yuan in supplementary funding towards a housing construction project for Tibetan farmers and herdsmen. The project includes 226,302 households. A total of 1.2 million farmers and herdsmen have been successfully moved to safe and comfortable new houses.     

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Tibet University Gets State Subsidies;Tibet Attends Mountain Flower Prize Art Festival;Fifty Years of the Career of Caidain Zholma;Zhada Clay Forest Rated as National Geography Park;＂Tibetan Children Wearing Beads＂;Production Begins on ＂Lama Cangyang Gyamco＂.     

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TWO JAILED FOR THEFT OF RELICSTwo Tibetans were jailed and fined for stealing tiles from the ruins of an ancient palace in the Ngari Prefecture.Gezong Toinzhub and Baiba Ngoizhub were convicted at the Ngari Intermediate People's Court of the Tibet Autonomous Region, but their alleged accomplice, Cequng, is still at large.     

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The State Offers 400 plus Million Yuan in TAR, The Old Downtown Soon Have Standardized Street Nameplates,TAR Free the Outlet of Desolated Goods, Illiteracy Rate in TAR Drops to 2.4 percent, ＂Eye Rehabilitation Program＂ Benefits 20-odd Thousand Tibetans.     

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Standardized Production of Tibetan Medicine;Mobile Medical Treatment Vehicles;Fourth Group of Aid-Tibet Workers Enter the Region;GDP Tops 8 Billion Yuan in the First Half;Gelug Sect Resumes Tests for Degree;Half a Million Visitors to Tibet;Powa Ceremony in the Monkey Year;New Artifacts Unearthed From Zhangzhong Ancient Town;New Structures Found Under the Potala Palace;Buddha Painting Unfolding Ceremony in Gandain Monastery。     

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Sorcerers in Lharze Liveon Science Given the fact that Nesa Village inLharze,withy a population of some 200including 63 sorcerers,the village iSknown as“the Sorcerers Village.”Inrecent years,villages around Nesa man-aged to get rid of poverty and many