Chinese foreign ministry's spokesperson, Mao Ning, on Friday, downplayed apprehensions over the country's plan to build the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet, saying that the ...

Earlier in 2015, China started operations of Tibet's largest facility, $1.5 billion Zam Hydropower Station. China had incorporated the Brahmaputra dam project into its 14th five-year plan (2021 ...

How much of the Brahmaputra’s water in Assam comes from Tibet? A top water resources expert and a researcher on transboundary river systems explain.

Pakistan, facing the Indus Waters blockage, has hinted that China might retaliate on their behalf using the waters of the ...

China’s frenzied development drive across Tibet — marked by dam construction, mining, and road building — is pushing one of Earth’s most fragile ecosystems to the brink.

China’s Medog Hydropower Station on the Brahmaputra, a new turning point in a highly-charged South Asian geopolitics ...

The Brahmaputra begins as meltwater from the Angsi Glacier in western Tibet. From there it flows east through the Himalayas, before turning sharply south, skirting Namcha Barwa mountain, and tumbling ...

Strategically, the dam gives China an advantage. The Brahmaputra River is called Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet. It begins near Mount Kailash and flows through China, India, and Bangladesh before ...

For years now, echoes have come across the lost horizon from remote Tibet that the Chinese Communists were having trouble digesting their 1950 conquest. Many of the reports of revolt and fighting ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, at the ninth International Conference of Tibet Support Groups (TSGs) held in Brussels, the Dalai Lama addressed 140 representatives from 40 countries. His speech highlighted ...