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 ...

Using the dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo to share electricity could carry ‘significant strategic value’ for Beijing, analysts say ...

A campaign framing the Brahmaputra as a shared heritage could pressure China. India should invest in modernising irrigation, ...

From border tensions between Thailand and Cambodia to China’s mega dam construction, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent ...

China defends its Yarlung Zangbo River hydropower project, claiming it's within its sovereignty, despite concerns from India, ...

The Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in Tibet, envisioned to be bigger than the Three Gorges Dam, threatens a uniquely ...

The dam will be built on Tibet’s longest river and despite concerns from India, Bangladesh and Tibetan rights groups, it has ...

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 ...

The move away from coal is getting slower, and the tail for the world's dirtiest fossil fuel is getting longer. We've seen ...

After China announced the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam in Tibetan territory on the Brahmaputra River (known as the Yarlung Zangbo River), it sparked concerns from India and ...