Tibetans often use the term Tibet to refer to a large Tibetan ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and historical area that includes what is now known as the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetan areas ...

Human ancestors first set foot on the interior of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau around 30,000-40,000 years ago, according to new research by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This ...

Liu Yonghui, 83, takes a photo in front of a board celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Qinghai-Xizang Railway in Xining ...

The Tibetan sheep industry is a typical representative of plateau animal husbandry and grassland animal husbandry and is also one of the characteristic industries in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region.

On June 23, two indices gauging prices of yak and Tibetan sheep in northwest China's Qinghai Province were released to th ...

A private vocational school in Qinghai has been forced to close for unspecified violations. Critics see a continuation of Beijing’s war on Tibetan language education. Despite taking part in a ...

There are a few trains in the world that not only offer breathtaking views to their passengers but are also engineering marvels. One of them is the Qinghai-Tibet train, which departs from Xining in ...

Built quite literally on the roof of the world – at an average elevation around 4,500m above sea level – the Golmud Station; from here the line stretches 1,142km to Lhasa. Xinhua bridge; one of the ...

Tibetans have suffered and continue to suffer repression and discrimination under PRC rule. Their rights to freedom of religion, association, speech, and assembly have been systematically violated, ...

Just back from a trip to the Tibetan areas of Qinghai province, where things are very tense in the wake of the new year holiday. Celebrations were largely aborted by Tibetans to commemorate the ...

Tibet is full of unwanted dogs. Areas of the Tibetan plateau have become flooded with giant, fluffy unwanted Tibetan mastiffs, once the most sought after dogs in China, after a collapse in the market ...