The Nepali and Chinese sides of the Everest region were closed to tourism on Wednesday due to unseasonally heavy snow, and a ...

Visited by thousands of trekkers and climbers, the region around Mount Everest has been blanketed by snow since Monday as a ...

More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and parts of ...

KATMANDU, Nepal-- Nepalese police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles on Tuesday who had gathered to pray for nine Tibetans who set themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule. About 400 ...

STORY: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's holiest cities on Tuesday morning, Chinese authorities said. It killed dozens of people and shook ...

KATMANDU, Nepal – A Tibetan protester doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in Nepal's capital Wednesday, the latest self-immolation to protest Chinese rule in Tibet. Eyewitnesses said ...

Ahmed Dulla with his 20 month old daughter Meherin, enjoying his iftar meal after fasting all day. Pic: Bikram Rai Mention Tibet, and the first thing that comes to mind is the Dalai Lama and Buddhism.

Reporting from Kodari, Nepal — Tsomo escaped Tibet last year on a zipline that carried her into Nepal over a chasm of jagged rocks and a river gushing white as ...

The smell of incense burning and the sound of deep-throated chants greet you at the gate of one of Kathmandu’s massive stupas, a Buddhist holy place where Tibetans gather to pray. For decades, Nepal ...

It is not every day that the military chief of the world’s emerging superpower stops by a tiny Himalayan nation. So when General Chen Bingde, Chief of General Staff of China’s People’s Liberation Army ...

The region around Mount Everest has been blanketed by snow since Oct 27. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

BEIJING/KATHMANDU >> A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest cities on Tuesday, killing at least 95 people and collapsing hundreds of houses, ...