The Chinese authorities, as part of their suppression of Tibetans’ basic rights, have taken aim at privately run educational ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

Xi particularly mentioned his country’s breakthroughs in areas such as aerospace, deep-sea exploration and new energy ...

Archaeologists have discovered 4,800-year-old relics in the earliest known lakeside settlement in Tibet, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region of China, dating back thousands of years. The site, ...

Without greater transparency on the part of China and cooperative frameworks, this dam could become a flashpoint in an ...

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

The former chairman of Tibet has been placed under investigation for alleged corruption as part of a wider crackdown in the western Chinese region. The investigation into Qizhala comes at a ...

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

Chinese authorities in Tibet have detected problems, including cracks, at five out of 14 hydropower dams that they have inspected since a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the southwest region last ...

On January 7, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Tingri in China’s Tibet region. Impact was felt in parts of Nepal, Bhutan and India. Hundreds of aftershocks followed the quake, forcing thousands ...

and 35 kilometres from Medog town in the Nyingchi region of Tibet. “The dam construction is a strategic project of China and Chinese have clear advantage to store or divert the flow of the ...