BEIJING – A 24-year-old Tibetan nomad set fire to himself Friday to protest China's rule in the third reported self-immolation within a week, said the London-based Tibetan rights group Free Tibet. The ...

Another harsh winter this year in the part of the Tibetan Plateau that is located in Nepal’s Upper Mustang region has resulted in a massive loss of livestock. Mustang’s nomads have been particularly ...

Ganzi, China, Jun 1 (efe_epa).Ganzi, China, Jun 1 (efe_epa). — Luo Zha is one of hundreds of thousands of former nomadic Tibetans who live in settlements created by China as part of a government ...

Under a twinkling starlit sky, the glow of an electric light is the only sign that a Tibetan nomad's way of life has changed in hundreds of years. Yaks are still milked using wooden buckets with rope ...

A Tibetan nomad died after setting fire to himself in Qinghai province. This is the latest case in a wave of similar protests that started in 2009 when a monk named Tapey self-immolated during the ...

For decades he and his wife grazed yaks and sheep, living a life little changed in centuries, until they acquiesced three years ago to government calls to give up their yak-hair tents for permanent ...

LANZHOU, China -- Last year, local Communist Party officials relocated a 64-year-old Tibetan cattle and sheepherder named Lhabu to a newly created town called "Nomads' New Village," about seven hours ...

DAMSHUNG, Tibet — For centuries, change came only with the seasons to Tibet’s alpine grasslands, painted rusty yellow in winter and emerald green in summer. Yaks and sheep roamed free in lush pastures ...

Ecological protection efforts in the Tibet autonomous region have presented nomadic herdsmen with a perplexing challenge: what to do when Tibetan wild donkeys are competing for sparse pasture with ...

A hunt for elusive treasure in a stark and staggeringly beautiful landscape. It’s not hard to see what lured Getty photojournalist Kevin Frayer to the remote mountains and grasslands of the Tibetan ...