Just as ties seemed to be on the mend, a US$137 billion hydropower behemoth on the Yarlung Tsangpo River threatens to muddy ...

Estimated $137-billion hydroelectric project, which would be three times larger than China's Three Gorges Dam, has raised ...

CHINA has given the green light to plans for the world's largest hydropower dam, despite protests from neighbouring countries. Millions could be without water as Tibet is set to become home to the ...

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 ...

China has approved the construction of a hydropower dam in Tibet that is set to be the largest of its kind in the world once complete. The 300 billion kWh dam will run along 31 miles of the ...

China’s late-December announcement about constructing the world’s largest dam in Tibet has generated mixed reactions and potentially set the stage for renewed geopolitical tensions.

The project, which will generate an estimated 300 billion kilowatt hours of electricity each year, will have almost three times more installed capacity than what is now the world’s largest ...

The dam, the biggest ever conceived, also holds geopolitical risks given its location next to the disputed and heavily militarized China-India border. Indeed, the mammoth dam is being built just ...

China's ambitions in hydroelectric energy were evident as early as 2008 when the Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest dam, was completed. Power generation began in 2012 and currently supplies ...

The dam, the biggest ever conceived, also holds geopolitical risks given its location next to the disputed and heavily militarized China-India border. Indeed, the mammoth dam is being built just ...