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The Chinese appointed 11th Panchen Lama has returned to Beijing after a 15 day visit to his occupied homeland. Chokyi Gyalpo visited Lhasa and various towns in his home prefecture of Nagqu and toured a yak farm and a museum of Tibetan medicine. He expressed amazement that his hometown now had electricity: “Now, with paved road and internet, life has improved a lot here,” he was quoted as saying.
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