China's last county finally linked by road The last county in China to be accessible by modern land transport was finally linked up to the rest of the country Thursday with a new road that has taken decades to build, state media said. The 19,000 people of deeply isolated Medog in southeastern Tibet, where the mighty Brahmaputra river -- known as the Yarlung Zangbo in China -- winds its way between towering Himalayan peaks, have until now ...
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