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

Roadside village between Shigatse and Dingri in 2000.[Photo by Bruce Connolly/chinadaily.com.cn] When an earthquake hits an area that is familiar, a place of fond memories, it somehow becomes more ...

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

Reopening the Tiptala Bhanjyang border point in Olangchungola with Tibet has significantly increased the demand for traditional Nepali carpets.

China said on Monday that disaster relief work in the quake-hit areas of Tibet was proceeding smoothly and that it was confident of winning the “tough battle” to restore normalcy in the affected areas ...

"Today, I prayed on the bank of Sangam - for those people who suffered as many houses were destroyed and lives were lost in Tibet and Nepal due to a disastrous ... The epicentre of the quake was ...

The construction of a colossal hydropower project by China in Tibet has emerged as a matter of grave concern for India, ...

One road I followed was through the Yarlung Tsanpo river gorges between Lhasa and Shigatse. That highway, G318, runs from Shanghai to Nepal border. Beyond Dingri, a turn off leads south, along a ...

A total of 1,211 aftershocks had been detected as of 3 pm Thursday after after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake jolted the ...

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BEIJING — Relief teams in western China shifted their focus to resettling survivors after a search Wednesday for any remaining victims of a deadly earthquake that struck a day earlier near a ...

Over 400 people trapped by rubble in earthquake-stricken Tibet were rescued, Chinese officials said on Wednesday, with an unknown number still unaccounted for after a tremor rocked the Himalayan ...