Discover the fascinating story of China's Three Gorges Dam, one of the world's greatest infrastructure achievements. This ...

New disclosures reveal that China’s planned super-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo — the world’s highest-altitude major river, better known as the Brahmaputra — is not a single structure. Rather, it is a a ...

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With a projected investment more than quadruple that of the Three Gorges Dam, which cost 250 billion yuan (£26 billion), the ...

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China’s already vast infrastructure programme has entered a new phase as building work starts on the Motuo hydropower project. The dam will consist of five cascade hydropower stations arranged from ...

On July 19, Chinese Premier Li Qiang officially announced the start of construction on a long-planned hydropower project on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. Billed as a centerpiece of ...

China, which harbours ambitions to control the Yarlung Tsangpo, as the Brahmaputra is known in Tibet, is moving ahead with ...

Plans by China and India to construct hydropower dams on a major Himalayan river raise the prospect of deadly environmental and humanitarian catastrophes for millions of people living downstream, ...

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's Premier Li Qiang announced construction had begun on what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau, at an estimated ...

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s Premier Li Qiang announced construction had begun on what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau, at an estimated ...