The ambitious project will cut through glaciers and mountains, bridging two regions long isolated by geography ...

On July 1, the Chinese government celebrated with great fanfare the opening of the final stretch of its railway to Tibet. The section runs between the city of Golmud in Qinghai province and the ...

The ambitious project will cut through glaciers and mountains, bridging two regions long isolated by geography.

The activist added that the western plains of Tibet, known as Changtang, are rich in gold, copper, zinc, and lithium, ...

LHASA, China, July 3 -- -- LHASA, China, July 3 -- After rolling under snow-covered peaks and crossing 2,500 miles, the first train ever to travel from Beijing to Tibet pulled into a station here ...

BEIJING, May 6 (Reuters) - China's controversial railway to the remote and restless mountainous region of Tibet could be threatened by global warming, which may melt the permafrost on which the tracks ...

NPR's Rob Gifford reports China is in the process of building a railroad through some of its harshest terrain, to reach the remote region of Tibet. The Chinese government says the project will bring ...

China is planning a more than 1 trillion yuan ($146 billion) push to accelerate infrastructure investment in Tibet, including new and previously announced projects, three sources familiar with the ...

(CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a rare trip to Tibet and hailed the crushing of “separatism” in the once-restive region, as Beijing prepares for a looming struggle over the successor of the ...

China has started building a new strategic railway line in central Tibet, claiming it is meant to improve transportation.

China is constructing a new strategic railway line connecting Tibet to Lhasa, running close to the Line of Actual Control ...

China's new railway line in Tibet raises concerns over military implications for India, boosting Chinese influence in the ...