At sunrise and sunset, the air is cool, the scent of burning juniper incense is strong, and a river of pilgrims flows in a sacred circle around Jokhang Temple. Every day, they walk the perimeter of ...

China is transforming the ancient part of Tibet's capital into a tourist district according to a visiting native of the area, Amy Li of the South China Morning Post reports. The construction project ...

Strange things are starting to happen as the Lhasa Express chuffs across the rooftop of the world. Outside the double-glazed, UV-blocking windows, I can see black-robed Tibetan nomads tending their ...

Probing fingers brushed my hip as I plunged into the crowd of Tibetan pilgrims shuffling around and around the Jokhang Temple. I turned, ready to confront a pickpocket, but instead found a tiny, ...

At a riverside park in Lhasa, a group of yak mascots has recently become an online sensation, attracting millions of views ...

(Adds comment by Tibet governor, Chinese Foreign Ministry) By Ben Blanchard BEIJING, March 11 (Reuters) - Tibetan monks have defied Chinese authorities by staging a protest in the remote Himalayan ...

BEIJING — The residents of the "roof of the world" can now sample Colonel Sanders' finest. On Tuesday, KFC opened a restaurant in Lhasa and became the first American fast-food brand in the capital of ...

Tibetan language teacher Deji Yangzong, gives a lesson to 3rd grade students in Lhasa No.1 Primary School in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 21, 2008. Tibetan ...

Chinese officials have allegedly sent a significant number of police and paramilitary personnel to Lhasa on Sunday for the annual Ganden Ngamchoe festival, an important religious event that honours ...

Originating from Tibet, the Lhasa Apso is a distinctive dog with excess facial hair and a long coat. They were originally bred by monks to help guard palaces and monasteries, which makes for a rather ...

BEIJING – BEIJING (AP) — A court in Lhasa has given a Tibetan a suspended death sentence for taking part in riots that erupted in the remote Himalayan region two years ago, an overseas Tibetan rights ...