The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

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

Shigatse city is renowned for its Tashilhunpo Monastery ... It seems incredible to appreciate that there was a "sea'"where today the Himalayas now reach up to the world's highest peak, 8,849 meter ...

Geologically, the Tibetan Plateau ranks among the most seismically active areas worldwide, serving as a convergence zone for the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ...

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

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

The devastating earthquake in Tibet last Tuesday that left 126 dead and 188 injured has exposed the danger associated with ...

LHASA -- On Sunday morning, at a newly-built resettlement site in the earthquake-struck county of Dinggye, Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, children were doing their homework inside warm ...

BEIJING-The authorities moved more than 46,000 people in earthquake-hit Tibet to shelters in a massive rescue operation at the foot of the Himalayas ... Monastery in Shigatse, according to Xinhua.

Many homes in Shigatse city were reduced to rubble ... and Eurasian tectonic plates clashed and caused uplifts in the Himalayan mountains strong enough to change the heights of some of the ...

More than 400 people trapped by a strong earthquake in the foothills of the Himalayas have been rescued ... 3,609 homes had been destroyed in the Shigatse region of Tibet, which is home to ...