CGTN (press release) |
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau first conquered by humans at least 30000 years ago
CGTN (press release) Thousands of stone artifacts recovered from a paleolithic site in Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China indicate that humans might have conquered one of the highest and most ecologically-challenging places on the globe at least 30,000 years ago. New signs of Tibet's earliest humans found |
Voice of America |
Tibetan Monk Tortured for 3 Decades in China's Prisons Dies
Voice of America Treated like a plow animal, kicked, beaten and tortured with leather belts, electric cattle prods, iron bars, self-tightening handcuffs and thumb screws, Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan monk, survived more than three decades in Chinese prisons. He fled to ... |
Albany Times Union |
Tibetans deliberate on reincarnation
Albany Times Union Dharamshala, India. Tibetan Buddhist monks from around the world are gearing up to discuss whether the aging Dalai Lama should reincarnate — and, if he does, then how to prevent Beijing from claiming that Tibet's next spiritual leader will reincarnate ... |
Xinhua |
First cross-river bridge on Lhasa-Nyingchi section of Sichuan-Tibet Railway starts track laying
Xinhua Workers lay tracks on the Yarlung Zangbo River bridge of the Lhasa-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway in Gonggar County of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Nov. 26, 2018. The Yarlung Zangbo River bridge, the first cross-river ... |
The Inquisitr |
New DNA Research Suggests Denisovans Inhabited Tibet 40000 Years Before Modern Humans Arrived On The Scene
The Inquisitr After discovering Denisovan DNA in the genomes of residents now living in Tibet, scientists have suggested that these human ancestors of ours were happily living in Tibet 40,000 years before modern humans arrived on the scene. According to the Daily ... |
Xinhua |
China Focus: Tibetan doctors welcome UNESCO's listing of traditional medicinal bathing
Xinhua LHASA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Padma Yangdron, director of the Tibetan Medicine Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, is thrilled that Tibetan medicinal bathing is now a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and ... |
Digital Journal |
The Booming Tibet Tourism
Digital Journal LHASA, CHINA, November 29, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Located in the west of China, Tibet is always the ultimate dream travel place for tourists either from home or abroad. Crowned as a holy site for Tibetan Buddhism believers, Tibet has hosted ... |
Economic Times |
Tibet was staging ground for China's belt-road
Economic Times The Chinese are fuming but these days few care about their “sensitivities” in Washington. In this post-sensitive era, it's OK to rain on their parade. The latest “outrage” was a 12-city, 26-day tour by Lobsang Sangay, president of the Tibetan ... |
The Weather Channel |
Tibet Discovery Suggests Humans Inhabited 'Roof of the World' Far Earlier Than Believed
The Weather Channel According to a paper published this week in Science magazine, a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences says humans first set foot on the interior of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau around 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, which is some 20,000 ... China Focus: Qinghai-Tibet Plateau first conquered by humans at least 30000 years ago New archaeological site revises human habitation timeline on Tibetan plateau Evidence shows humans arrived in Tibet 40000 years ago |
Xinhua |
China Focus: Tibetan doctors welcome UNESCO's listing of traditional medicinal bathing
Xinhua LHASA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Padma Yangdron, director of the Tibetan Medicine Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, is thrilled that Tibetan medicinal bathing is now a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and ... |
ecns |
China Focus: Qinghai-Tibet Plateau first conquered by humans at least 30000 years ago
Xinhua by Quan Xiaoshu, Qu Ting. BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of stone artifacts recovered from a paleolithic site in Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China indicate that humans might have conquered one of the highest and most ... Evidence shows humans arrived in Tibet 40000 years ago Qinghai-Tibet Plateau receives biggest early winter snow in 57 years |
Xinhua |
China Focus: Tibetan doctors welcome UNESCO's listing of traditional medicinal bathing
Xinhua LHASA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Padma Yangdron, director of the Tibetan Medicine Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, is thrilled that Tibetan medicinal bathing is now a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and ... |
Archaeology |
Earliest evidence for humans on the 'roof of the world' found
National Geographic The Tibetan Plateau is one of Earth's harshest environments, encompassing nearly a million square miles of land thrust two and a half miles skyward, blanketed in cold, thin air that's difficult to breathe. Now, Chinese researchers have made a ... Stone Tool Workshop Unearthed in Tibet New archaeological site revises human habitation timeline on Tibetan plateau High plains drifters: Tibetan Plateau colonised for 30000 years |
ThinkGeoEnergy |
Chinese group updates on geothermal development efforts in Tibet
ThinkGeoEnergy China-based Beijing Enterprises Clean Energy Group Ltd. announces having secured the exploration rights to the Kawu geothermal field in Tibet. The field has an expected geothermal power generation potential of up to 80 MW. |
CNSNews.com |
Airbnb Delists 'West Bank' – But Not Tibet, South Ossetia, Northern Cyprus …
CNSNews.com (CNSNews.com) – As Airbnb's decision to delist hundreds of properties in the territories disputed between Israel and the Palestinians makes waves, the company continues to carry listings located in other areas under dispute around the world, among them ... Listings in Disputed Regions - Airbnb Press Room Beverly Hills City Council Condemns Airbnb and Calls for Boycott - City Of Beverly Hills |
Xinhua |
Colorful scarves made by kindergarten children to be sent to Tibet as gifts
Xinhua Children put their self-made scarves in an express box at a kindergarten in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province on Nov. 30, 2018. About 100 colorful scarves, made by the children of an attached kindergarten of Zhejiang University, will ... |
Digital Journal |
The Booming Tibet Tourism
Digital Journal LHASA, CHINA, November 29, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Located in the west of China, Tibet is always the ultimate dream travel place for tourists either from home or abroad. Crowned as a holy site for Tibetan Buddhism believers, Tibet has hosted ... |
Tibet Sun |
Tibetan freedom fighter Palden Gyatso passes away
Tibet Sun Palden Gyatso shows his ink-marked thumb, as he leaves after casting his vote to elect members of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile and Sikyong, the political leader of the Central Tibetan Administration, in McLeod Ganj, India, on 20 March 2016. |
Xinhua |
China Focus: Tibetan doctors welcome UNESCO's listing of traditional medicinal bathing
Xinhua LHASA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Padma Yangdron, director of the Tibetan Medicine Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, is thrilled that Tibetan medicinal bathing is now a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and ... |
Xinhua |
Tibetan opera performed in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet
Xinhua Members of Tibetan opera troupe perform in a Tibetan opera funded by China National Arts Fund in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Nov. 24, 2018. Tibetan opera was awarded national intangible cultural heritage status in 2006. |
Xinhua |
China's Tibetan medicinal bathing listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Xinhua Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2018 shows the herbs of Lum medicinal bathing of Sowa Rigpa in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed on Wednesday China's Lum ... |
Archaeology |
Stone Tool Workshop Unearthed in Tibet
Archaeology BEIJING, CHINA—Cosmos Magazine reports that a team of researchers led by Xiaoling Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has unearthed a 30,000-year-old stone tool workshop in central Tibet—some 15,000 feet above sea level. Evidence from the ... High plains drifters: Tibetan Plateau colonised for 30000 years Earliest evidence for humans on the 'roof of the world' found New archaeological site revises human habitation timeline on Tibetan plateau |
ecns |
Evidence shows humans arrived in Tibet 40000 years ago
ecns According to an article published in Science on Thursday, a research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found pieces of stone artifacts, pottery sherds as well as animal bones in a village in Nyingchi, Tibet autonomous region. Two damaged ... Qinghai-Tibet Plateau receives biggest early winter snow in 57 years |
Cosmos |
High plains drifters: Tibetan Plateau colonised for 30000 years
Cosmos People were living 4600 metres above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau at least 30,000 years ago, a new study has found. That makes it the earliest known human occupation at high altitude anywhere on the planet. Archaeologists have long wondered when ... Stone Tool Workshop Unearthed in Tibet New archaeological site revises human habitation timeline on Tibetan plateau Earliest evidence for humans on the 'roof of the world' found |
Xinhua |
China Focus: Tibetan doctors welcome UNESCO's listing of traditional medicinal bathing
Xinhua LHASA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Padma Yangdron, director of the Tibetan Medicine Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, is thrilled that Tibetan medicinal bathing is now a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and ... UNESCO inscribes Tibetan medicinal bathing on intangible cultural heritage list |
