Just as ties seemed to be on the mend, a US$137 billion hydropower behemoth on the Yarlung Tsangpo River threatens to muddy ...
The proposed dam in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, known as Brahmaputra in India, is expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, about three times the ...
On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on Tibet’s longest river, which Beijing calls the Yarlung Zangbo.
Project planned for an ecologically fragile area in Tibet near contested border with India, raising environmental, security ...
With the Tibetan region’s seismic vulnerability due to tectonic plate activity, such mega-dam projects could exacerbate risks ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has come up with another fantastic study, which says that ...
India and China began implementing what was touted as a landmark pact to de-escalate tensions along their disputed Himalayan ...
Producing hydropower from lower reaches of Yarlung, which becomes Brahmaputra in Arunachal, is either a part of Beijing’s ...
India-China relations remain tense over an ongoing border dispute in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, despite a top-level ...
But China’s Medog project on the ‘Great Bend’ of the Yarlung Tsangpo river — the upstream part of the Brahmaputra river — is ...
India’s concerns over the mega dam include Chinese control over the flow of water to India, threat to ecological balance and ...
On December 25, the People’s Republic of China approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung ...