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From border tensions between Thailand and Cambodia to China’s mega dam construction, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent ...
In fact, the average person in China probably doesn’t even know the name of the humungous new project. Xinhua, for what it’s ...
The location in the remote and sparsely populated Tibetan borderlands has the potential to cause environmental and political ructions China has officially broken ground on what is set to become the ...
China has begun building the world’s largest hydropower dam on the Tibetan plateau, with Dongfang Electric and Xizang Tianlu ...
This is no ordinary project. First proposed in the 1990s and later elevated to national priority in China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, the Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower station is widely seen as the country’s ...
The Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in Tibet, envisioned to be bigger than the Three Gorges Dam, threatens a uniquely ...
NEW DELHI As China pushes ahead with its ambitious plan to build a $16.7 billion mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo, known as ...
China has begun construction on a USD 170 billion hydropower dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River, its most ambitious project since the Three Gorges Dam. Expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours ...
Satellite imagery gives a glimpse of the site where China has commenced construction on what will become the world's largest ...
China faces potential power disruptions as record heat pushes energy demand to new heights. The situation affects hydropower ...
China's giant Yarlung Tsangpo hydroelectric project is aggravating relations with neighboring India but adding to the ...