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Tibet

Interview: Swiss student gives Chinese TV crowds a taste of their country

04/08/2009 by Ellen Wallace

[/caption] Update: Liam won third place in the 2010 competition Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Liam Bates arrived home to the Lake Geneva region in Switzerland from China 28 July with more than the six-month scholarship he won from the Chinese government as a finalist in its international university competition for Mandarin speakers: he had a […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Asian studies, China, Chinese Bridge, Chinese speech contest, Dalai Lama, Ecolint, Education, Geneva news, Inner Mongolia, La Chataigneraie, language, Lausanne, Liam Bates, Mandarin, Shanghai, Sichuan, Switzerland, Tibet, UBC, university

Tsering Shakya, top expert on Tibet, on country’s youth

25/03/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Republished with permission Liam Bates, from Saint Prex, Vaud, who attends the University of British Columbia in Canada, contributes feature and travel articles to GenevaLunch. In mid-March 2009 he won a speech contest sponsored by the Chinese government, “Chinese Bridge,” to find the best Chinese speaker among Canadian university students. In August 2009 he competes […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Canada, China, Chinese Bridge competition, Land of the Snows, Liam Bates, Motorbikes Mao and a Yak, Tibet, travel, Tsering Shakya, UBC, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, young people

Travel: The day I saw eagles eat a man

19/10/2008 by Ellen Wallace

TIBET, July 2008 Here is a little article I wrote after I witnessed a traditional Tibetan burial this July, a ‘Celestial Burial’ or ‘Sky Burial’. There are no photos of the ceremony included, taking photos is strictly forbidden. In fact it is not usually allowed for a non-Tibetan to watch the burial, but I was […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Celestial Burial, Tibet, Tibetan burial, travel

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