Over the 60 years since the establishment of the Xizang Autonomous Region, one indicator has been particularly remarkable: the average life expectancy of the local population has surged from 35.5 ...

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Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems ...

In Nepal, the unseen eye has changed Tibetan life. The cameras are not just machines perched on the thick bundles of wires that twist through narrow lanes of Kathmandu in Nepal.

Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – ...

When Frank Bessac visited the Dalai Lama in Lhasa in 1950, he was the last American to visit the Buddhist leader before he fled from Tibet. Photo by Kurt Wilson The Dalai Lama greets Frank Bessac of ...