Many homes in Shigatse city were reduced to rubble ... the spiritual leader who has lived in exile in India since a failed anti-Chinese uprising in 1959. Western governments and human rights ...
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck near Tibet's sacred city of Shigatse, causing building damage and prompting evacuations in Nepal and India. The tremors disrupted daily life as far as 400 km away in ...
The quake's epicenter is located in the Lhasa block in the southern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the center stated. It ...
Ninety-five people were killed and 130 others were injured after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the foothills of the Himalayas near Shigatse.
The construction of a colossal hydropower project by China in Tibet has emerged as a matter of grave concern for India, ...
Xigaze is located 90 km north-east of Lobutse in the Khumbu Himalayan range in northeast Nepal, and is the last border town of Tibet not far from the Nepal-Tibet-Indian tri-junction touching Sikkim.
held vigils for the victims in neighboring India and Nepal, both of which have sizeable communities. The earthquake struck an outlying county in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet and the ...
No damage has been reported to Shigatse’s Tashilhunpo monastery ... Southwestern parts of China, Nepal and northern India are often hit by earthquakes caused by the collision of the Indian ...
No damage has been reported to Shigatse's Tashilhunpo monastery ... speaking from exile in India where he fled in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule. China routinely rejects ...