China on Saturday opened the first train service to Tibet across the world's highest railway, a controversial engineering feat meant to bind the restive Himalayan region to China. The first train ...

BEIJING — Travelers in the Himalayas can now bypass some of Tibet's hazardous roads by using a new railway line that has renewed fears about Tibet's cultural identity and deepened concerns about China ...

China has launched the first fully electrified bullet train in Tibet’s Himalayan region, linking the provincial capital of Lhasa to Nyingchi, near the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The 435.5km ...

China on Saturday opened the first train service to Tibet across what it called the world’s highest railway, a controversial engineering feat meant to bind the restive Himalayan region to China.

Even on her journey of a lifetime, Beijing official Yang Hong felt terrible. As the railway ministry's boss of dining services, she had to ensure that some 800 passengers on the inaugural ...

Highlighting the importance of the Ya'an-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday that greater efforts should be made to build a high-quality railway because ...

The Chinese government celebrated an engineering feat on July 1 as President Hu Jintao officiated at the departure of the first train from Beijing to the “roof of ...

LHASA, China (AP) ¿ Three crimson-robed monks chant quietly as they file through the ancient palace, pausing every now and then to pray in the candlelit rooms filled with Buddhist statues and ...

Construction works to complete the middle section of the Sichuan-Tibet railway link will begin in the upcoming weeks. Credit: PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay. This comes after Xinhua news agency ...

As the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is crawling forward, all Buddhist shrines including the sacred Namco Lake, holy Kailash Mountain and celestial burial sites are intact. The 1,142-km-long railway, believed ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Tibet's environment will not be damaged by the construction of a second railroad linking the remote area to the rest of China, the region's deputy Communist Party boss said on ...

China is set to begin construction of a strategic railway line linking Ya’an in Sichuan with Nyingchi in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Part of a larger rail project to link Chengdu, the capital ...