Train to Tibet - Ads by Google
24 Mar 2007 01:18 EDT

Readers familiar with Tibetan websites will recognize the placement of this advertisement immediately as Phayul.com. What’s also rather interesting is that the site advertised, ChinaTibetTrain.com, is full of “Ads by Google” itself, as well as a news feed that’s listing stories such as (as of my writing) “Man dies on Tibet train trip”.

While the site claims to be “official”, I can’t seem to find any information about who actually operates or owns it. The complete lack of Chinese propaganda and claims of ownership of Tibet, not to mention the lack of badly-broken English, suggests to me that whoever put up the site has no affiliation with the Chinese government or railway.

If you have any leads or followup on this story, please submit them for posting as comments.