BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhuanet) -- "Street Barkhor is honored as a national renowned culture-historic street mainly because it has kept its traditional look and cultural function never changed," said ...

BEIJING, June 9 -- Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, has issued a plan for 2009 to 2020, to protect the world cultural heritages in the city, namely the Potala Palace, Jokhang ...

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated Woeser’s response to a CCTV poll which claimed that Lhasa was China’s happiest city: I laughed and asked back, living under gunpoint day and night, being followed ...

A strong earthquake shook a mountainous region in western China near Nepal on Tuesday morning, killing at least nine people. State broadcaster CCTV cited the Ministry of Emergency Management for the ...

An illustration of the newly built ring road in Lhasa, capital city of Tibet autonomous region. [Photo/CCTV] After the world's highest rail route, Qinghai-Tibet Railway, opened in 2006, the world's ...

Among those shrines, a ladies temple is quite unique and interesting. It is located within the Lhasa city in a residential area. Driving from downtown area will only take about 30 minutes. There are ...

High-speed Fuxing bullet trains will be put into use on the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway starting in June, connecting two major cities in the Tibet autonomous region as announced at the annual conference of ...