Strange things are starting to happen as the Lhasa Express chuffs across the rooftop of the world. Outside the double-glazed, UV-blocking windows, I can see black-robed Tibetan nomads tending their ...

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

Even on her journey of a lifetime, Beijing official Yang Hong felt terrible. As the railway ministry's boss of dining services, she had to ensure that some 800 passengers on the inaugural ...

China opened up a new high-speed railroad that connects cities with an electric bullet train. Passengers can travel from Tibet's capital, Lhasa, to the city of Nyingchi in three and a half hours. The ...

China’s $50 billion Sichuan–Tibet Railway is one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects ever attempted, cutting through extreme terrain, fragile ecosystems, and geopolitical fault lines. This ...

Aboard The Beijing-Lhasa Express, China? China’s first train from Beijing to Tibet set out Saturday carrying business travelers and thrill-seekers on the world’s highest railway, which critics fear ...

A train crosses a bridge outside of Lhasa on the new railway (epa) PRAGUE, August 11, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- China's new railway to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, is a remarkable engineering achievement.

Highlighting the importance of the Ya'an-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday that greater efforts should be made to build a high-quality railway because ...

The Chinese government celebrated an engineering feat on July 1 as President Hu Jintao officiated at the departure of the first train from Beijing to the “roof of ...

ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS, China – Students, civil servants and thrill-seekers were among the hundreds traveling aboard the first trains from China to Tibet on the world’s highest railway, ...