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If you want to venture outside of Lhasa, Tibet's main city and tourist hub, you have to apply for an additional permit through your tour company. You are not allowed to travel outside of Lhasa ...
EL PAÍS travels to the autonomous region of China, where governments and NGOs denounce the violation of rights and Beijing ...
Global Tibet advocacy groups have voiced serious concern and are urging a full and transparent investigation into the death ...
The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile has expressed deep sorrow and outrage over the sudden and suspicious death of Tulku Rigzin ...
Tickets cost 200 yuan (about $30) from May to October and 100 yuan (about $15) from November to April. 8 Day Tibet Classic Tour (3 reviews) 6 Days Lhasa Gyantse Shigatse Group Tour ...
Such things - trivialities in much of the world - can lead to arrest, detention, and torture in Tibet under Chinese rule.
Exiled from Tibet at the age of three ... resisted the People’s Republic of China army at Potala Palace in capital city Lhasa as a last-ditch effort to preserve their independence.
It was the early 1920s, and the young adventurer William Montgomery McGovern had managed to sneak into Lhasa, the "forbidden city" of Tibet. Few, if any, Westerners had ever made the journey. To reach ...
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An important contribution to its geography has now been made as one of the indirect results of the British expedition to Lhasa in 1904. The Chinese then feared the annexation of Tibet to India ...