India-China relations remain tense over an ongoing border dispute in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, despite a top-level ...

When Pasang Nuru Sherpa recalls his childhood in the quiet village of Pangboche, in the foothills of Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Everest, his memories take him back to the gentle hum of daily life ...

The book "Far From The Rooftop Of The World" tells the stories of Tibetan refugees who are "ordinary people, yet they are ...

India’s concerns over the mega dam include Chinese control over the flow of water to India, threat to ecological balance and ...

CHINA has given the green light to plans for the world’s largest hydropower dam, despite protests from neighbouring countries ...

Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into ...

India's foreign ministry said on January 4 that it has shared its concerns with China about a planned hydropower dam on the ...

The Siang Upper Multipurpose Project will generate electricity and regulate water flow. But locals are angry about government ...

A chorus of protests emerged from retired generals ... who captured Ladakh and made forays deep into Tibet, crossing this very Pangong Tso lake. In this week’s column, we will take a brief look at the ...

Earlier, the US Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 7.1 earthquake had struck the Tibet Autonomous Region on the border with Nepal. Its epicenter was 10 kilometers deep and 163 kilometers ...

Protests against hydropower projects in Tibetan regions are not new. Earlier this year, hundreds of Tibetans were detained while protesting the Gangtuo dam and hydropower plant, which threatened to ...

In a recent move the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party approved formation of two new counties in the Hotan Prefecture of Xinjiang Province and the same was formally announced by the ...