Exploring China’s secret lands uncovers a side of Tibet that most people never know exists. Far beyond famous monasteries and ...

An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 struck Tibet on Wednesday afternoon, as reported by the National Center for Seismology (NCS). In a post on X, the NCS shared that the earthquake occurred at a depth of ...

When Sun Yat-sen helped overthrow the Qing dynasty, he did not promise a new empire in republican clothing. He spoke instead ...

China has confirmed the launch of a massive hydropower project on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, ...

Beijing — A strong earthquake killed at least 126 people in Tibet on Tuesday and left many others trapped as dozens of aftershocks shook the region of western China and across the border in Nepal. The ...

The State Council of China unveiled the National New Type Urbanization Plan (NUP) in 2014 to increase the percentage of urban residents in the total population of China from 52.6 percent in 2012 to 60 ...

In the middle of a Saturday night in the spring of 1959, a phone rang on a quiet suburban block in Chevy Chase, Maryland. John Greaney mumbled an apology to his pregnant wife and reached for the ...

KOCHI : The Tibet issue was back in the headlines after the US Congress passed a bill that supports the Tibetan cause. The legislation, which calls for Beijing’s re-engagement with Tibet’s spiritual ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 7 January 2025 Tibet, the remote and mainly-Buddhist territory known as the "roof of the world", is governed as part of China. Historically ...

Brad Pitt may be one of the most beloved actors since the 1990s, but one of his earlier films saw the man banned from a ...

The first Japanese recorded to have set foot in Tibet was a monk, in 1900, seeking a purer version of Buddhism than the one in his homeland. What remained unclear was the route Ekai Kawaguchi ...

Tibet has long captured the West's imagination as the site of a mystical Utopia. Geographically dramatic and remote, it has an average altitude of 13,000ft (4,000m) above sea level and is popularly ...