A fire has hit the most important shrine in Tibetan Buddhism - the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa. Footage posted online showed flames billowing from the roof and what appeared to be at least one ...

All tourists come into Tibet through Lhasa, accessible via the Lhasa Gonggar ... or around $5 to get into town). However, your journey via train will be a lot longer (from Chengdu, it's more ...

LHASA: The trials and sentences of the people jailed for their involvement in the March 14 riot last year in Lhasa, Tibet were fair and in line with Chinese law, judges and lawyers said on Thursday.

Footage has emerged showing what appear to be rare large-scale protests against strict Covid-19 measures in the Tibetan regional capital, Lhasa. Multiple videos on social media show hundreds ...

It was the early 1920s, and the young adventurer William Montgomery McGovern had managed to sneak into Lhasa, the "forbidden city" of Tibet. Few, if any, Westerners had ever made the journey. To reach ...

As a student studying abroad, I was traveling in the Tibet Autonomous Region in southwestern China and happened to see the public spectacle of killing criminals in the town of Lhasa. Even now ...