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As Beijing prepares to build world’s biggest hydropower dam, a look at the Yarlung Tsangpo River
China’s efforts to build the mega dam at a cost of US$ 167 billion on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet have triggered ...
Yarlung Tsangpo dam: China's mega dam project on Brahmaputra meant for destruction? Poses huge threat to India and...
China has claimed that the gargantuan Yarlung Tsangpo dam is aimed to bolster the country's energy independence as the ...
More power than Britain: China kick-starts mega dam to bolster economy
Building has started on the world’s biggest hydro project in Tibet, predicted to give a jolt to sectors like construction, ...
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China’s New Mega-Dam Raises the Stakes for Sino-Indian Hydrodiplomacy
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 ...
China begins building world's largest dam, fuelling fears in India
China has started construction of what would be the world’s largest hydropower dam. Chinese Premier Li Qiang on July 19 led a ...
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Why world's largest dam could result in Sino-Indian water war
China's construction of the world's largest dam on the Brahmaputra River could potentially ignite a water conflict with India ...
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"Hydropower project in Yarlung Zangbo River is fully within China's sovereignty," Chinese FM Spox says
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun during his press conference said that the hydropower project in the lower ...
Civil societies urge China to halt Yarlung Tsangpo Dam; demand ratification of UN Watercourse Convention
In a united call for environmental justice and regional peace, civil society groups, indigenous communities, farmers, forest dwellers, women’s organizations, and human rights defenders across the ...