On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on Tibet’s longest river, which Beijing calls the Yarlung Zangbo.
Project planned for an ecologically fragile area in Tibet near contested border with India, raising environmental, security ...
On December 25, the People’s Republic of China approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung ...
China is now the world’s most dammed country, with more large dams in operation than the rest of the world combined.
CHINA has given the green light to plans for the world’s largest hydropower dam, despite protests from neighbouring countries ...
The Siang Upper Multipurpose Project will generate electricity and regulate water flow. But locals are angry about government ...
Notably, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is so big that American space agency NASA claimed it affected Earth's ...
A gigantic hydroelectric project is predicted to provide power for more than 300 million homes when it is completed - but it ...
Estimated at a cost of approximately USD 137 billion, the dam is to be built in the ecologically fragile Himalayan region.
The dam will be built on a river in Tibet called the Yarlung Tsangpo, with construction carried out by the government-owned Power Construction Corporation of China. It will not only be one of China's ...