Within easy reach and open all hours, Robert Hume pays tribute to the automated telling machine (ATM), or ‘hole-in-the-wall’, which celebrates its 50th birthday today.

CHINA will start work on the world’s highest airport next year, in Tibet’s Nagqu county, state media said yesterday, which will be about 100m (328ft) higher than the existing record holder in another part of the remote and restive region.

China opened the first train service to Tibet on the world’s highest railway today, a controversial engineering marvel meant to bind the restive Himalayan region to China.