More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and parts of ...

Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into loyal citizens.

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

More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet, but with limited media ...

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 ...

Rescuers call off search for survivors in earthquake-hit Tibet and move thousands to shelters - About 1,000 of the earthquake-proof and heated houses are being sent to Tingri and can be erected in ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...