What is the history of the Dalai Lama? As celebrations continue post the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday, we take a look.

Over 350 people in Gyirong county in the Xizang autonomous region have been relocated to safe places after a mudslide struck ...

Videos aired by China’s state broadcaster CCTV showed houses destroyed with the official Xinhua News Agency saying more than 1,000 houses were damaged. The epicentre of the quake was Shigatse ...

Weeks before the Dalai Lama ruled out China's role in choosing his successor, President Xi Jinping met a Tibetan Buddhist ...

At least 126 killed in 7.1-magnitude Tibet earthquake as tremors felt across multiple countries Tremors felt in northern India, Bangladesh, and Bhutan ...

Many homes in Shigatse city were reduced to rubble, video released by Tibet Fire and Rescue showed. Rescue workers searched through the debris of a ruined home and pulled out one injured person ...

Shigatse lies in the southwestern part of Tibet and is the region’s second-largest city. Earlier, on 8 May, an earthquake of magnitude 3.7 jolted the region.

Shigatse city is renowned for its Tashilhunpo Monastery, a major tourist attraction today. This area, as indeed much of southwestern China, is sadly earthquake prone.

The tremor, which Chinese authorities recorded as magnitude 6.8, hit Dingri County in Shigatse, a mountainous region in western China that borders Nepal.

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has hit Tibet’s Shigatse city, China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported. The earthquake struck at 9:05am local time (01:05 GMT) at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles ...

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale jolted Shigatse, Tibet’s second-largest city, early on Tuesday morning, sparking concern across the region.The tremor struck at ...

The China Meteorological Administration forecast that the mercury will drop to minus 18 degrees Celsius by Tuesday evening. The remote Shigatse is far from China’s main cities.