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A worrying scenario at Ladakh border

Edit Deccan Chronicle 19 Jun 2016
“It is the melon season in neighbouring Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, fresh fruit is stacked up at the roadside, waiting to be ferried through the Kunlun Mountains and up to the plateau along the Xinjiang-Tibet highway.” This road not only links the two most strategic (and restive) provinces of China (Tibet and Xinjiang), but also ......

Qi Baishi painting album sells for $18m

Edit China Daily 07 Dec 2015
A mountain-and-water landscape of ink master Li Keran sold 70.15 million yuan. The painting depicts the sublime scenery of snow-capped Kunlun Mountain in Northwest China ... poem titled Nian Nu Jiao• Kunlun....

A myth is brought to life

Edit China Daily 04 Sep 2015
Kunlun Myth, a musical that combines ... Kunlun Myth is produced by director Don Frantz, a veteran at Walt Disney and Broadway ... The story is set in a village in the Kunlun Mountains where a pillar between Heaven and Earth once existed....

Music brings China's mythical Kunlun Mountains to Chicago

Edit The Examiner 21 Aug 2015
Set amid the mythical Kunlun Mountains, Kunlun Myth was the first Chinese original musical performed by the Musical China Theatre Troupe ... Kunlun Myth is performed in Chinese with English subtitles at....

Global Adventure: Sixteen Rapid-Fire Questions with Kent McBride (Eddie Bauer LLC)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Aug 2015
(Source. Eddie Bauer LLC). Kent McBride has skied and climbed in a long list of countries around the globe, including France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Canada, Mexico, China, Tibet, Nepal, Sweden, Norway, Morocco, New Zealand, and, although technically not a country, Antarctica ... -LYA Editor ... The Kunlun Mountains in China ... On the back of a miniature donkey, again in the Kunlun Mountains in China ... Iqaluit, Canada....

There's a giant, underground ocean hidden in the middle of this Chinese desert

Edit Seattle Post 01 Aug 2015
When we think about the deserts of the world, water abundance is one of the last things that come to mind ... A basin is, by definition, a valley that collects water from drainage systems, like water that has melted and is running down the face of nearby, snow-capped mountains. Two mountain ranges border the Tarim basin. to the north are the Tian Shan mountains and to the south are the Kunlun Mountains ... NOW WATCH....

Mountain Shape Affects Species’ Response to Climate Change (University of Connecticut)

Edit noodls 18 May 2015
More than two-thirds of the mountain ranges in the world are not pyramid-shaped, a new study finds. In addition to pyramid-shaped mountains like the Alps, mountains may be diamond-shaped like the Rockies, hourglass-shaped like the Himalayas, or even shaped like upside-down pyramids, like the Kunlun mountains of Asia ... Close your eyes and imagine a mountain ... What they found has turned their idea of mountains literally inside-out....

Questions That Whiz Kids Have Faced at the Annual National Geographic Bee

Edit ABC News 11 May 2015
Can you name the large bay that the Potomac River empties into? Or in which country Mount Kosciuszko is the highest peak? ... What It’s Like to Be a Legacy in the Scripps Spelling Bee ... Geography. ... King’s Mountain, site of an important American victory in the Revolutionary War, is located in the Piedmont region in which state? ... The Taklimakan Desert, home to the Uyghur people, is located north of the Kunlun Mountains in which Asian country?....

Qinghai to promote Kekexili's bid for world heritage status (Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China)

Edit noodls 27 Jan 2015
(Source. Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China) Qinghai to promote Kekexili's bid for world heritage status. Updated. 2015-01-26 11.00. Tibetan antelopes at the Kekexili Nature Reserve. [file photo] ... Qinghai selected Kekexili from a number of candidates, including the Kunlun Mountains, Qinghai Lake, the Qaidam Basin and Sanjiangyuan - the "source of three rivers" ... distributed by ... (noodl....

China's JDB plans global push for its popular herbal tea drink

Edit South China Morning Post 24 Dec 2014
The benefits of herbal tea to relieve inflammation may be little known overseas, but JDB Group is intent on changing that ... However, the company said it did not accept the ruling and would appeal to a higher court ... At the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that concluded last month in Beijing, cans of Jiaduobao and bottles of Kunlun Mountain - JDB's high-end mineral water - were piled up at media centres ... ....

China’s glaciers shrink by a fifth since the 1950s

Edit South China Morning Post 14 Dec 2014
Snowcaps on the Altai Mountains in Xinjiang and the Trans-Himalaya mountain range are among the worst affected and have shrunk by 37.2 per cent ... The Karakoram and Altyn-Tagh mountain ranges in Xinjiang, the Kunlun Mountains and Changtang Plateau in the Tibetan region were less affected and retreated between 8.4 and 11.3 per cent during the period....

China's glaciers shrink by a fifth since the 1950s

Edit South China Morning Post 14 Dec 2014
Snowcaps on the Altai Mountains in Xinjiang and the Trans-Himalaya mountain range are among the worst affected and have shrunk by 37.2 per cent ... The Karakoram and Altyn-Tagh mountain ranges in Xinjiang, the Kunlun Mountains and Changtang plateau in the Tibetan region were less affected and retreated between 8.4 and 11.3 per cent during the period....

China's Kekexili applies for world heritage

Edit Xinhua 23 Nov 2014
Qinghai Province selected Kekexili from a number of candidates including the Kunlun Mountains, Qinghai Lake, the Qaidam Basin and ......
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