Explore the cultural, demographic, and infrastructural changes in Tibet's Lhasa, reflecting China's influence and impact on ...

Each night, the Qinghai-Tibet train leaves Beijing at 9:30. A mere 48 hours later, it rolls into Lhasa, 2,525 miles away. Waiting to depart from Beijing. Photos: Erica Gies Shortly after 9 p.m ...

Tibet is linked with the rest of China by air and road. But officials said the new train route, which took five years and more than $4 billion to build, will facilitate commerce, giving Tibet a ...

China on Saturday opened the first train service to Tibet on the world's highest railway, a controversial engineering marvel meant to bind the restive Himalayan region to China.

For the first time, relatively isolated Tibet is accessible to the Chinese masses, even if you have to briefly don an oxygen mask to get to the lan ...

And yet the train I was about to board, the new Chinese service from Beijing to Lhasa, in Tibet, runs on the highest railroad in the world.

2005-02-24 04:00:00 PDT Tuotuohe, China-- In this muddy truck stop along the Qinghai-Tibet highway, Zhao, the Chinese owner of the Lanzhou Handmade Noodle Tavern, reminisced about the good old ...

The train would give me a ground-level tour of the country and its people before depositing me – 48 hours later – in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.

Dubbed a "miracle" of engineering, the so-called Sky Train climbs to an elevation of 5,702m at the "roof of the world". The Qinghai-Tibet railway stretched before us right across the Himalayan ...