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March 25, 2016

Struggle in the city for Tibetan nomads
Aba, China (AFP) March 22, 2016
By mid-morning, Lobsang's leather cowboy hat is askew, his black robes dishevelled, and his breath stinks of booze. Once a nomad herder roaming the high Tibetan plateau, instead he stumbles around his sparse new concrete house. For decades he and his wife grazed yaks and sheep, living a life little changed in centuries, until they acquiesced three years ago to government calls to give up their yak-hair tents for permanent housing. Now they live in a resettlement village, row after row of identi ... read more

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