More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with ...

Yet there is a serene calmness with which Pasang Tsering, 40, ties the legs of a female yak—dri or nag in Tibetan—with a rope made from yak wool and gets its calf to suckle and induce the milk.

Instead of being apple-cheeked blonds, they are brown-faced, black-haired, almond-eyed, and smell faintly of rancid yak butter. All 23 of the new villagers are Tibetan refugees who were flown in ...

For nomadic tribes, livestock and animals were the backbone of trade, and Tibetan Mastiffs held a value that far exceeded ...