Under its soil, Tibet possesses resources China needs to survive, including 40 per cent of the mainland's minerals and the source of ten of Asia's rivers.

In April last year, Peking University scientists found a 252ft tree in Medog County in Tibet, which had briefly become China’s tallest tree.

DHARAMSHALA: The Central Tibetan Administration of the Tibetan government in exile, based in Dharamshala, is planning to draw up a map to counter China's tactics of changing the names of places ...

The Chinese Communist Party is looking to control the next Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual head under Tibetan Buddhism, to legitimize its 1950 occupation of Tibet, a remote land in the world's ...

Previous research has pointed to China ’s Yunnan region as the key to understanding the origins of Tibetan as well as Austroasiatic populations, referring to ethnic communities in Southeast Asia ...

The report, titled "Chinese hydropower - Damning Tibet’s culture, community, and environment", draws on detailed regional research coupled with advanced Geographic Imaging Software (GIS) analysis and ...

Tibet's Ali: Asia's Atacama?The Ngari (Ali) prefecture of Tibet, one of the highest areas in the world, has recently emerged as a promising site for future astronomical observation. Here we use 31 ...