The tomb-sweeping festival sees millions taking to the roads and burning offerings such as paper money to honour their ...

Since 2009, more than 150 Tibetans have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule. Tibet is a linguistically diverse ...

A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest cities on Tuesday, killing at least 126 people and flattening hundreds of houses and causing ...

The epicenter of Tuesday’s magnitude 6.8 quake, one of the region’s most powerful tremors in recent years, was located in Tingri in China’s Tibet region, about 80 km (50 miles) north of ...

BEIJING, China (CNN)-- A monk carrying a Tibetan national flag and shouting slogans set himself on fire in south-central China on Friday and then was shot at by police, a human rights group reported.