Experience a flight aboard Tibet Airlines from Chengdu to Lhasa, the Roof of the World. The A330 flight navigates challenging terrain using Required Navigation Performance (RNP) for improved accuracy, ...

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 ...

I step out of my hotel in the old city of Barkhor – one of the few parts of Lhasa, Tibet, where foreign tourists are allowed to walk unaccompanied by a guide – and into a bustling faux-medieval bazaar ...

More than 200 hikers are stranded by a blizzard on the Tibetan slopes of Mount Everest, as Chinese state media say ...

Hello, city-lovers! Today Song Lee tells us about all of the great things to see, do, and eat in Tibet’s capital city. Want to see your city on IT? Copy and paste our list of fill-in-the-blank ...

Editor’s note: After stopping in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, to present the city with the gift of a cybercafe, Boulder Mayor Shaun McGrath and his wife, Becca Heaton, have moved on to another sister city: ...

Two unidentified Tibetan monks reportedly set fire to themselves in front of Lhasa’s Jokhang Temple on Sunday. From Radio Free Asia: “The security forces arrived immediately and put out the fire and ...

Lhasa, the capital city of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, on Sunday completed renovation of its old city, a bustling cultural and commercial center. Local residents walk on the Barkhor ...

Chinese soldiers on patrol in Lhasa, capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Anastasia Corell) From nearly any point in Lhasa, capital of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, you can see at least two ...

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 ...