The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, which could affect nearby countries. By Tiffany May Isabelle Qian and ...

While the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has sparked concerns in India, from China’s perspective it ...

China has announced plans to build the world's biggest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsanpo river, generating even more energy than the Three Gorges Dam ... Dead at 37 10 Mistakes You Might ...

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 ...

(The Chinese government formally approved the world’s biggest ... A big worry is that the dam will diminish the flow of water into India — China may build a monstrous reservoir and divert ...

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 ...

BEIJING--China has approved the construction of what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect ...

known as Brahmaputra in India, is expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, about three times the power of China's Three Gorges Dam, currently the world's biggest.