When The Global Times announced that Beijing was going to build a cascade of nine large HPPs on the Yarlung Tsangpo, human ...

Catholics in China have sent funds to survivors of last week's earthquake in the Tibet region to help them clear debris and ...

The impact of the earthquake was felt across the Shigatse region of Tibet, home to 800,000 people. The region is administered by Shigatse city, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama ...

Shigatse is the seat of the Panchen Lama ... the Indian tectonic plate pushes up into the Eurasian plate, forming the Himalayas, and earthquakes are a regular occurrence. The region is seismically ...

More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and parts of ...

The epicentre was around 80 km north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers ...

A powerful earthquake has rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest cities, killing at least 53 people and shaking buildings in neighbouring Nepal, Bhutan and India.

A powerful earthquake struck Shigatse, Tibet, on Tuesday resulting in over 95 fatalities and around 50 aftershocks, causing significant destruction. While earthquakes are common in the region ...

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's Xigaze city on Tuesday. The quake resulted in at least 95 fatalities and injured 130 people causing ...