Beijing’s mega-dam on Tsangpo River threatens Tibet as much as India and Bangladesh
When The Global Times announced that Beijing was going to build a cascade of nine large HPPs on the Yarlung Tsangpo, human ...
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Earthquake in Tibet kills more than 120, striking near holy Buddhist city
Many homes in Shigatse city were reduced to rubble ... and rescue efforts should be carried out to minimise casualties and to ...
The 10 Airports With The Highest Elevation In The World
Located close to one of Bolivia's major cities, La Paz, El Alto International is the highest international airport in the ...
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Urgency mounts in search for survivors of powerful Tibet earthquake
188 injured on Tibetan side Survivors trapped under rubble at risk of hypothermia Quake destroyed more than 3,000 homes in Tibet's Shigatse region BEIJING, Jan 8 (Reuters) - More than 400 people ...
Hundreds rescued as search for quake survivors continues in Tibet
More than 14,000 rescue workers have arrived in Tibet to continue the search for survivors after a strong earthquake killed at least 126 people in a remote part of western China.
India-China relations: A river runs through it
The India-China conversation on water has, over the years, merely skimmed the surface, unable, and often unwilling, to wade ...
Tents Arrive for Survivors of a Quake That Killed 126 in Freezing, High-Altitude Tibet
Rescuers in the freezing, high-altitude Tibet region in western China searched a second day for any remaining victims of a deadly earthquake that struck near a holy city for Tibetan Buddhists, before ...
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Tents arrive for survivors of earthquake in high-altitude, wintry Tibet that killed 126
BEIJING (AP) — Rescue workers in the cold ... citing the city government in Shigatse, which is called Xigaze in Chinese. The Ministry of Emergency Management has 1,850 rescuers on the ground, state ...
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Earthquake in Tibet kills over 100 people, China's state media say, with many others feared trapped
Beijing — A strong earthquake killed at least ... and about 14 miles from the region's second-largest city of Shigatse, known as Xigaze in Chinese. About 140 miles away in Nepal's capital ...
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Earthquake in Tibet kills more than 120, striking near holy Buddhist city
BEIJING/KATHMANDU (Reuters ... The impact was felt across the Shigatse region of Tibet, home to 800,000 people. The region is administered from Shigatse city, the traditional seat of the ...
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Earthquake in Tibet kills more than 120, striking near holy Buddhist city
BEIJING/KATHMANDU (Reuters ... The impact was felt across the Shigatse region of Tibet, home to 800,000 people. The region is administered from Shigatse city, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, ...
Strong earthquake kills at least 53 people in western China near Mount Everest
(Xinhua via AP) BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake killed at least 53 ... from the region’s second-largest city of Shigatse, known as Xigaze in Chinese. The average altitude in the area around the ...