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

A strong earthquake shook a high-altitude region of western China and areas of Nepal on Tuesday, damaging hundreds of houses, ...

There have been 10 earthquakes of at least magnitude 6 over the past century in the area where Tuesday's quake hit, the USGS said. Tibet is an autonomous region of China administered largely by ...

In Tibet, massive rescue efforts by emergency services ... beds and coats to the affected area. In a statement following the quake, Chinese leader Xi Jinping called on officials to make all ...

China has almost doubled its tally of injured in Tibet's deadly earthquake as rescuers widened a search on Friday for survivors in a remote county near the foothills of the Himalayas, despite ...

The Jan. 7 quake in Tibet, the fifth-deadliest in China since the 2008 Sichuan temblor, destroyed more than 3,600 houses and ...

In digesting Tibet's different regions, it's important to know a few things. First, there's a distinction between Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region (also referred to as the TAR). Tibet is ...

The epicentre was around 80 km north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers ...

the capital of Tibet, and about 23 kilometers (14 miles) from the region’s second-largest city of Shigatse, known as Xigaze in Chinese. The average altitude in the area around the epicenter is ...

A huge magnitude 7.1 earthquake has hit the holy city of Shigatse, or Xigazê, in the autonomous region of Tibet in China.

Tibet is part of China ... There have been 10 earthquakes of at least magnitude 6 in the area where Tuesday’s quake hit over the past century, the USGS said. About 150 aftershocks were recorded ...