Built in the 17th century by a predecessor of the current Dalai Lama, the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, has ...

When Sun Yat-sen helped overthrow the Qing dynasty, he did not promise a new empire in republican clothing. He spoke instead ...

On January 1, 1912, China formally ended imperial rule and declared itself a republic. The moment carried enormous weight.

According to Phayul, in his New Year address, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that construction had begun in Medog ...

Brad Pitt may be one of the most beloved actors since the 1990s, but one of his earlier films saw the man banned from a ...

An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 struck Tibet on Wednesday afternoon, as reported by the National Center for Seismology (NCS). In a post on X, the NCS shared that the earthquake occurred at a depth of ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true bug history.

Youngdoung Tenzin is living history of modern Tibet. The Chinese government on Dec. 22 last year sanctioned him along with 19 ...

In the middle of a Saturday night in the spring of 1959, a phone rang on a quiet suburban block in Chevy Chase, Maryland. John Greaney mumbled an apology to his pregnant wife and reached for the ...

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KOCHI : The Tibet issue was back in the headlines after the US Congress passed a bill that supports the Tibetan cause. The legislation, which calls for Beijing’s re-engagement with Tibet’s spiritual ...

The State Council of China unveiled the National New Type Urbanization Plan (NUP) in 2014 to increase the percentage of urban residents in the total population of China from 52.6 percent in 2012 to 60 ...