I was born in Kham, in eastern Tibet, my parents’ first born. A brother and sister followed, and the five of us lived with ...

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

Air China promptly activated its emergency response plan and set up a task force dedicated to relief efforts following the ...

Located close to one of Bolivia's major cities, La Paz, El Alto International is the highest international airport in the ...

LHASA -- A relics site, first discovered in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region in 2019, has been identified as the ...

Foreign trade also grew last year, with the total import and export volume hitting 12.67 billion yuan, up 15.4 percent ...

Tingri, the epicentre, is home to around 62,000 people, and is much less developed than urban centres like Tibet’s capital Lhasa. The China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) measured the quake ...

The India-China conversation on water has, over the years, merely skimmed the surface, unable, and often unwilling, to wade ...

Two unnamed sources within Tibet’s capital Lhasa told RFA that Tibetans are conducting their ... numbers on poorly constructed traditional buildings. Meanwhile, the Shigatse government has ordered ...

But damage round the epicentre was extensive. An initial survey showed 3,609 homes had been destroyed in the Shigatse region, home to 800,000 people, state media reported late on Tuesday.

The impact of the powerful earthquake was felt across the Shigatse region of Tibet, one of the holiest sites in Buddhism which is home to 800,000 people. The region is administered by Shigatse ...