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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s one of the policies actually to propagate and distort the very history of Tibet. Tibet is and was always called Tibet. There was no other name in history if you look back. This has been a Chinese ...

Tibet was referred to as ’Xizang’ or China’s Xizang, in Chinese media coverage Sikyong (president) of Tibetan government-in-exile Penpa Tsering appealed to the international community not to ...

Deadly Tibet quake damaged four reservoirs Shows risks of adding hydropower in Himalayas, experts say Dams in region are 68, with 101 planned or being built China building world's largest hydro ...

India's foreign ministry said on January 4 that it has shared its concerns with China about a planned hydropower dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet This river flows into India as the Brahmaputra ...