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

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

Kids play with a cat inside a mobile house at a temporary resettlement site in Gurum village in Chamco township of Dingri county in Shigatse, Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region ...

Southwestern parts of China, Nepal and northern India are often hit by earthquakes caused by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. Tingri, which sits atop the zone where the ...

The India-China conversation on water has, over the years, merely skimmed the surface, unable, and often unwilling, to wade ...

"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 ...

It was a natural disaster and “not caused by political tensions,” he said. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Dingri county of Shigatse prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region on Jan. 7, ...

Home to some 60,000 people, Tingri is Tibet’s most populous county on China’s border with Nepal and is administered from Shigatse, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, one of the most important ...

Many homes in Shigatse city were reduced to rubble ... The quake woke residents in Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu, about 140 miles from the epicentre, and sent them running into the streets.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Tibetans living in India and Nepal prayed for the victims of the earthquake which killed at least 126 people ...

China had received messages of condolence in various forms from the leaders of 22 countries as of Wednesday morning regarding the deadly magnitude 6.8 earthquake that jolted Dingri county of Shigatse ...