<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c4e62027-09a1-478b-bedf-2c7950fa5193/BFB94FA8-43DD-45AC-BED4-3DD0AF722510/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://abcasiapacific.com/news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1678558.htm" href="http://abcasiapacific.com/news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1678558.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">abcasiapacific.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abcasiapacific.com/news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1678558.htm"><DIV style='padding: 0px 10px; height: 296px;' class='plainbox bigtext dgrey'><div> China and India will reopen an historic trading route through Tibet this week.</div><br><div>The Nathu La border pass, 4,545 metres above sea level, was closed in 1962 when the two countries fought a brief border war in the Himalayan region. </div><br><div>With relations improving the two countries decided that it is time to reopen the pass, which sits between the Indian state of Sikkim and Tibet.</div><br><div>Nathu La was a major trading point between the two countries before the 1962 war and its reopening is aimed at restoring the region's former trading glory. </div><br>A study conducted by the Sikkim government says trade via the pass could reach $US12 billion by 2015.<p> </p><p class="smalltext">ABC Asia Pacific TV / Radio Australia</p> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BFB94FA8-43DD-45AC-BED4-3DD0AF722510/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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