Offstream
news

The death toll from the floods and landslides in Meizhou, Guangdong, China, increases to 47 people.
2024-06-21

Twenty-eight people are killed and 53 others are rescued during an avalanche at a tunnel in Nyingchi, Tibet, China.
2023-01-20

The world's highest elevation expressway, between Lhasa and Nagqu in Tibet, China, opens. The average elevation of the 295 km expressway is more than 4500 m above sea level.
2021-08-21

Heavy rains cause floods and landslides in Gapyeong, South Korea, killing at least 14 people and forcing the evacuation of more than 1,000. The rains have also battered China, Thailand, India and Myanmar. Neighboring North Korea warns of possible floods, while the New Zealand government reports the deaths of three of its citizens in the South Korean floods.
2020-08-4

China announces plans to build a railway linking the Tibetan capital Lhasa with Chengdu.
2016-03-5

A Tibetan teenager dies after self-immolating in Gansu, China, in the seventh such incident this week and 70th since 2009.
2012-11-11

Hundreds of Tibetan students and monks protest against education policies in China's western Qinghai Province, shortly after a series of self-immolations by Tibetan monks.
2012-11-9

A Tibetan protester self-immolates during a protest in the Indian capital New Delhi, ahead of a visit by the Chinese president Hu Jintao.
2012-03-26

China releases the Tibetan writer, Kalsang Tsultrim, who was arrested in China earlier this year for what China termed a "political error". [http:--news.in.msn.com-national-article.aspx?cp-documentid=4471916 (MSN)]date=April 2020
2010-10-18

More than 300 kilograms of drugs - opium, morphine, ice (methamphetamine hydrochloride), ketamine and dancing outreach - are incinerated in the suburbs of Lhasa, Tibet.
2010-07-1