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Every Friday, we recap highlights of the news from China. This week, yet another attempt was made to ease US-China trade ...
A mountaineering group climbed Mt. Everest door-to-door from Great Britain in just a week with the use of Xenon gas. Tenzing ...
Trade through the pass resumed in 1992 after hiatus following 1962 India-China war but faced setbacks due to geopolitical tensions, and was halted in 2020 amid Covid-19 pandemic.
General Secretary of the Communist Party is giving a religious sermon to a Buddhist monk – Beijing clearly fears an ...
The Panchen Lama holds a pivotal position in Tibetan Buddhism, revered as the second-highest spiritual authority after the ...
The Tibetan Plateau is the highest plateau on Earth and is frequently designated the “Roof of the World” or the “Third Pole.” This area has distinctive climatic features, including extreme coldness, a ...
The man picked by Beijing as the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism pledged adherence to the ruling Communist Party’s dictates Friday during a rare face-to-face ...
State media in China says that the man picked by Beijing as the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged ...
Gyaltsen Norbu, who is rarely seen in public, met behind closed doors with Mr Xi in Zhongnanhai, the government compound in the centre of Beijing, about 2,300 miles from his home monastery of ...
A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in ...
Apple's 'Tenzing' has tapped Genden Phuntsok for the lead role of sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who summited Mt. Everest in 1953.