The Sichuan-Tibet Highway, originally called the Kangding-Tibet Highway (a section of the No. 318 National Trunk Highway) begins in Chengdu of Sichuan on the east and ends at Lhasa in Tibet on the ...

Just as China's imperial government used to regulate the tea trade in Sichuan ... the northern route, Highway 317, is blacktop. Near Lhasa it parallels the Qinghai-Tibet railway, highest in ...

The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet ... last year in Sichuan Province, according to a news report. Image A banner in a Tibetan market in India protesting a dam project in China.Credit ...

In India, the Yarlung Tsangpo is known as the Brahmaputra and flows through the state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims ... region on the border of Tibet and Sichuan province, against ...

For Chinese authorities and most Chinese-speaking ethnicities in China ... Tibet Autonomous Region. The Chinese government has designated the Tibetan-inhabited areas of Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan ...

Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan. These areas used to be part of Tibet until Chinese rule. The TAR refers to China's current Tibetan borders and doesn't include these neighboring areas, though Tibetans ...

Chinese authorities in Tibet have detected problems, including cracks, at five out of 14 hydropower dams that they have inspected since a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the southwest region last week ...