The dam will be built close to China’s border with India. The Yarlung Zangbo, known outside China as the Yarlung Tsangpo, ...

China has a questionable record when it comes to building and maintaining giant dams. In August 1975, the Banqiao Dam and 61 others throughout Henan, China collapsed following the landfall of Typhoon ...

A lorry, with its driver trapped inside, was left hanging off a collapsed highway bridge in China's Guizhou province. Days of ...

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China’s dam empire is crumbling—literally and figuratively. In 1949, the People’s Republic had a handful of major dams. By 2025, Water Resources Minister Li Guoying boasted of nearly 95,000 ...

He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China. ... heavy rains caused the collapse of a dam in the Kialimskoye reservoir in the Karabash urban district of the Urals region of Chelyabinsk.

Devastating rains have struck Chongqing municipality in southwest China with the Three Gorges Dam on high alert for a new round of flooding. Six people deaths had been recorded as a result of ...

China has gone three consecutive years without a dam collapse, an unprecedented achievement despite growing flood control challenges linked to climate change, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Beijing's approval of a controversial mega dam in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which flows from Tibet autonomous region into India, has sparked concerns about the environmental ...

China’s latest massive dam project could be a weapon in disguise by Gordon G. Chang, opinion contributor - 01/15/25 10:30 AM ET ...

The dam will be built close to China’s border with India. The Yarlung Zangbo, known outside China as the Yarlung Tsangpo, becomes the Brahmaputra when it flows into India’s Arunachal Pradesh.