China’s state news agency recently announced government approval for constructing the world’s largest hydropower project, ...

Without greater transparency on the part of China and cooperative frameworks, this dam could become a flashpoint in an ...

Geologically, the Tibetan Plateau ranks among the most seismically active areas worldwide, serving as a convergence zone for the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ...

Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan, often heralded as the ‘Kate Middleton of the Himalayas’, joined her husband, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, to bestow a rare national honour upon Laurene Powell Jobs ...

“Activity at the site is just beginning,” says Dr. Lotay Tshering, a urologist who served as Bhutan’s Prime Minister from 2018 to 2023 and is now governor of the GMC. “But progress in the ...

Kids play with a cat inside a mobile house at a temporary resettlement site in Gurum village in Chamco township of Dingri county in Shigatse, Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region ...

Notably, an earthquake jolted a remote region of Tibet on January 7, killing at least 126 people and injuring over 100 others, with tremors felt in Nepal, Bhutan and parts of ... The epicentre of the ...

Two days after 32-year-old freelance journalist Mukesh Chandrakar was reported missing, his body was found on 3 January in a septic tank near the home of Suresh Chandrakar, a building contractor and ...

The temblor shook buildings as far away as Nepal and parts of India and Bhutan and destroyed more ... of an earthquake in a location given as Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region (via REUTERS ...

The earthquake struck Dingri county in Shigatse, Xizang, at 9:05 am on Tuesday at a depth of 10 kilometers. As of 10 am on Wednesday, 126 people have been confirmed dead and 188 injured.

The temblor shook buildings as far away as Nepal and parts of India and Bhutan and destroyed more than 3,600 houses around Tingri, presenting a formidable task to rescuers in an area where the ...

The tremors of the Shigatse earthquake were felt across the neighbouring countries, including Bhutan. Gasa, the nearest dzongkhag to the epicentre, experienced the maximum intensity of four on the ...