China Restores Access to Tibet Disaster Zone
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Photos of sons, daughters, uncles and husbands pepper Chinese social media, shared by people hoping for news about relatives missing since deadly floods on the border with Nepal last week. - As of a week after the floods,
Some of the most dramatic footage from the deadly flash flooding is hidden from public view in China.
China has warned that glaciers across the Tibetan Plateau are becoming more unstable after the deadly Tibet-Nepal disaster. Scientists say future risk assessments must track how such collapses rapidly intensify downstream.
Rights groups accuse China of intensifying censorship in Tibet after devastating mudslide on Nepal border - Rights groups say China has withheld information that could reveal intensity of devastation
A wall of mud and rock appeared to collapse into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China’s Tibet, triggering catastrophic flooding on the Nepali side that killed at least 31 people and left hundreds of tourists missing,
China has denied that its Tibet hydropower projects were linked to the Nepal flash floods. The response comes as deaths and missing numbers mount and scrutiny of Himalayan dam safety deepens.
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A 73-year-old retired nurse spoke her native Tibetan all her life but never learned to write it — until now. Her decision offers a glimpse into how some embrace their language and cultural identity in Tibet,
As the death toll from last week’s glacial flooding disaster at the Tibet-Nepal border surpassed 1,000 on Tuesday, sources inside Tibet told Radio Free Asia that a group of 10 Tibetan travel guides are among the missing.