China is set to build the most ambitious rail link connecting Xinjiang province with Tibet, part of which will run near the Line of Actual Control with India, according to a media report. Image......
Rescuers raced against time to search for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings in frigid weather amid hundreds of aftershocks, a day after a massive quake hit a Tibetan county while......
The Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday signalled its interest to extend the Qinghai-Tibet rail link to India and Nepal, official sources said."We are willing to promote the railway link between the......
The Qinghai-Tibet railway project is expected to go into trial run by July 1, 2006, Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan said.Zeng was attending a working conference on the project. The rail link will......
Wang Junzheng, Tibet's new Communist party boss, is on a number of sanctions lists by the US, Britain, the EU and Canada, for his tough role in Xinjiang, aimed at China's Uyghur ethnic minority,......
China plans to build the world's highest airport as part of a yuan 100 billion investment in Tibet in the next four years. According to media reports the airport will be at an altitude of 4,436......
China has completed laying 421 kilometres of railway tracks for the 1,532-km long Qinghai-Tibet railway, the world's highest, the state media reported on Thursday.Twenty-two of the 32 key projects......
'Either China is building regional transport infrastructure long before it needs it, or this is in a chain of Chinese investments with more strategic than economic intent,' says T N Ninan. So, Xi......
It has taken nearly 14 years to complete a 3-km feeder road in Kolkata, while the Chinese took just 5.5 years to complete the 1,956 km Qinghai-Tibet Railway over high mountains and permafrost. Even......
First electric locomotive. Photograph: Siemens Two hundred years after George Stephenson built the steam-powered Blucher, Open Knowledge pays tribute to 200 years of rail transport. ......