Nestled on the southern slope of the Himalayas and along the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, Medog county in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region was once known as a "plateau island." ...

Road provides a lifeline and lifts hopes for locals, Wang Huazhong, Liu Xiangrui and Daqiong report in Medog county, Tibet. Few people understand the importance of roads better than the residents of ...

Local authorities in Medog County, the last county in China to gain road access to the outside world, announced Wednesday it would decrease the number of tourists to fewer than 15,000 annually by 2015 ...

Beijing, China, Dec. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wang Wenguang raises a hand-held axe, hacks through the branches blocking the way, and steps into the forest. Damp air clings to the skin, and the ...

Aerial photo taken on Sept. 30, 2022 shows the highway linking Pad Township in the city of Nyingchi and Medog County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The 67.22-km road connects Pad Township ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: The avalanche occurred on a section of road between Pai village in Mainling county and the exit of the Doxong La tunnel in ...

India’s excessive maliciousness against neighbours is writ large. Now, the Modi government is bedevilling China’s approved Medog Dam in Tibet to stir up tension on unfounded paranoia of water scarcity ...

The office of Tibet in Geneva has flagged the significant risks posed by the planned construction of the China’s Medog (Metok) Dam on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo River–Brahmaputra in India–during the 58th ...

At the end of the 1960s, a transit station for goods was established at Paizhen township in Mainling. It was open from July to September every year and used exclusively by the people of Medog. County ...

Scientists in Medog document new species and protect biodiversity in the Yarlung Zangbo Canyon, turning China’s "earth’s third pole” vision into action. Beijing, China, Dec. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) ...