Of the five affected dams, three have since been emptied, the Tibet emergency management official told a news conference. In the county of Tingri, the quake's epicenter, the walls of one hydrodam ...

Everyone should imbibe lord Buddha's philosophy in our daily lives,” said Bhadanta Athuraliye Ratan Thero, Sri Lankan MP. He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the two-day national seminar on ...

Overlooking a vast plateau in Tibet, a woman cries as she describes the scene in front of her. Her camera focuses on the ruins of a nunnery, painted a deep maroon and set into a hillside.

BEIJING — A rural county in the Chinese region of Tibet, still feeling tremors from last week's magnitude 6.8 earthquake, was jolted on Monday (Jan 13) night by two powerful aftershocks barely ...

Using 'up-and-down' S-wave and shear-wave splitting data alongside 'back-and-forth' P-wave data collected from 94 broadband seismic stations across southern Tibet, the researchers have unveiled a ...

Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed 126 and damaged four water reservoirs this week highlights the risks from a hydropower building spree by Asian giants China and India in one of the ...

Nepal (MNN) — A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck China’s Tibet region last Tuesday, January 7. At least 126 people died and more than 47,000 have had to relocate in the midst of below-freezing ...

The Sinhale Jathika Organization stated that the former governor of the Western Province Azad Salley, should be arrested immediately, for his influence on the investigations regarding the vandalizing ...

They don’t deserve another chance.” On January 7, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Tingri County in Tibet’s Shigatse prefecture, causing significant devastation in the region. The earthquake resulted ...

Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Sunil Kumara Gamage announced yesterday, 11 January, that Mahinda Rajapaksa’s name will be removed from the international stadium in Diyagama, Homagama. The decision ...

The noisiest celebrations for the defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa, were not in the capital Colombo but in the Tamil North and over Adam’s Bridge, the ancient causeway which once connected Sri Lanka to ...

Despite its hefty financial cost, the dam will contribute to Beijing’s ‘climate neutrality goals’. Construction will take place at the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, China (Photo by Li Lin/China News ...