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Tibetan women work at a carpet factory in Nepal. See an old woman work ata spinning wheel. She uses Tibetan sheep wool as the raw material for the carpets. She came to Nepal in 1959. The area at the carpet factory is for spinning. The old women at the carpet factory remember the days when she came to Nepal she said that Nepal used to be a very small country and it was very easy living here but nowadays it becomes tough. After the Chinese invasion and complete occupation of Tibet in the year 1959, thousands of Tibetans fled Tibet and followed the Dalai Lama and sought asylum in India, Nepal and Bhutan. For those Tibetans, who could reach and stayed in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, His Majesty's Government has so kindly allotted some land within the Kathmandu city area for rehabilitation
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