The newly launched Qinghai-Tibet Railway will certainly bring a lot of travelers to Tibet, but it won't have a great impact on the local environment, Qiangba Punco, Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous ...

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 ...

China on Saturday opened the first train service to Tibet across the world's highest railway, a controversial engineering feat meant to bind the restive Himalayan region to China. The first train ...

China opened up a new high-speed railroad that connects cities with an electric bullet train. Passengers can travel from Tibet's capital, Lhasa, to the city of Nyingchi in three and a half hours. The ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Even on her journey of a lifetime, Beijing official Yang Hong felt ...

A train crosses a bridge outside of Lhasa on the new railway (epa) PRAGUE, August 11, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- China's new railway to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, is a remarkable engineering achievement.

2003-11-05 04:00:00 PDT Lhasa, Tibet-- Beijing's plan to pacify this restive Himalayan province involves a $3.2 billion railroad that will connect the rest of China to the frozen Tibetan plateau, ...

Chinese workers work on a construction site of the Qinghai-Tibet railway before a ceremony to mark the completion of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous ...

The Chinese government celebrated an engineering feat on July 1 as President Hu Jintao officiated at the departure of the first train from Beijing to the “roof of ...

BBC carried Michael Bristow’s report on the effects of the railway line linking Tibet to China in its first year of existence. Lhasa’s railway cargo depot lies at the end of a partly-paved road, full ...