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A Tibetan woman lays offerings during the Tibetan New Year, which fell on February 25, in her new house at Yabda village, Yabda Town, Doilungdeqen County, west Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on February 26, 2009.  Tibet has allocated 680 million yuan (about US$97 million) to build new residences for 57.8 thousand households of 312 thousand farmers and herdsmen in 2008. [Xinhua]

 

(Xinhua News Agency March 1, 2009)

A Tibetan woman lays offerings during the Tibetan New Year, which fell on February 25, in her new house at Yabda village, Yabda Town, Doilungdeqen County, west Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on February 26, 2009. Tibet has allocated 680 million yuan (about US$97 million) to build new residences for 57.8 thousand households of 312 thousand farmers and herdsmen in 2008.