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 ...

LHASA -- A relics site, first discovered in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region in 2019, has been identified as the earliest Neolithic lakeside site in the heartland of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau ...

As rescue workers waded through rubble in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in China's remote Tibet region in January 2025, a picture of Tibetan Buddhist monks clearing debris circulated in posts ...

The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit Dingri County in Shigatse City on Jan. 7 devastated several villages in the fragile Himalayan region, killing at least 126 people and injuring hundreds. Catholic ...

The epicenter of this 7.1 magnitude quake, appears to be within Dingri county, which comes under the administration of Shigatse, Xizang's second-largest city after Lhasa. Hence it is being ...

The region is administered by Shigatse city, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism. Many homes in Shigatse city were reduced to rubble ...

The China Earthquake Networks Centre located the epicentre at Tingri county, known as the northern gateway to the Everest ...

A deadly earthquake in Tibet has killed 126 people, injured 188, and left thousands displaced as rescuers race to save lives in freezing conditions.

Members of a rescue team help a person walk through rubble left in the aftermath of an earthquake in a location given as Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, in this screengrab obtained ...

More than 14,000 rescue workers have arrived in Tibet to continue the search for survivors after a strong earthquake killed at least 126 people in a remote part of western China.