The total cost of the dam could go beyond 1 trillion yuan (about $137 billion), making it the most expensive infrastructure ...

Such protests are extremely rare in Tibet, which China has tightly controlled since it annexed the region in the 1950s. That ...

The project has stoked concerns about displacement and environmental impact downstream in India and Bangladesh.

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 ...

This report, based entirely on primary sources, documents the emerging trends in political repression in Tibet, an area which for the purposes of this report includes both the mountainous plateau ...

His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, exiled head of Tibet, and international figurehead of Tibetan Buddhism, is turning 90 next year. The widely revered spiritual leader takes fewer ...

These peaks border plateaus, and in turn form the southern edge of Tibet. Tibet, a vast area of plains, mountains and gorges, is only now being explored fully by naturalists. Tropical heat and ...

Culturally and ethnically Tibetan areas constitute ¼ of the land area of the People’s Republic of China -- roughly the size of Western Europe -- as well as the country of Bhutan and parts of north ...

also known as Kamtok in Tibetan, in the valley straddling the Dege (Derge) and Jiangda (Jomda) counties. Once built, the dam's reservoir would submerge an area that is culturally and religiously ...