Photo tour, now in Nepal, in Mexico City on 10/21/08 (Xinhua/en.tibetculture.net).
China's Official State Media, August 5, 2009
KATHMANDU, Nepal - There is a popular saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words." So it is not hard to get a one-sided view of the "development" of the Tibetan Autonomous Region from a pro-China perspective -- so long as China controls the exhibition. Therefore, a 217 photo exhibit has been launched [in a likely propaganda campaign Nepal is obliged to allow to tour through] showing Tibet's antique past and modern Chinese present.
Visitors of the exhibition entitled "Tibet of China: Past and Present" spoke of their experience after viewing the exhibit in Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Wednesday. "An exhibition of lively pictures has unveiled the bitter truth of past as well as glimpse of prosperous present of Tibet," Nepalese Minister for Information and Communications Shankar Pokharel is reported to have said after viewing the array of carefully selected images.
Adding that relations between Nepal and China, culturally and socially, has roots extending back to ancient times, Pokharel said that phases of development and modernization of Tibet could be a new strategy of development in Nepal. More>>
