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Updated Sunday, April 27, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AFP

China begins building Tibet-Nepal rail link

KATHMANDU -- China has started to build a rail link between Tibet and Nepal that could drastically reduce Kathmandu’s trade reliance on its giant southern neighbor India, officials said Saturday. Beijing is bringing the railway line from Lhasa — the capital of troubled Chinese-controlled Tibet — to Khasa, a town along the Nepal-China border, Aditya Baral, the Nepalese premier’s foreign affairs adviser, told AFP. “Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala was told by a visiting Chinese delegation during a meeting Friday the Chinese government has begun the railway extension project on its side to link with the Nepal-China border,” Baral said.

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