Without greater transparency on the part of China and cooperative frameworks, this dam could become a flashpoint in an ...

The location of the dam is in Medog County, near the “Great Bend” of the Yarlung Tsangpo, where the river takes a dramatic U-turn before entering Arunachal Pradesh. According to reports ...

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu voiced concerns over China's plan to build the world's largest hydropower ...

But China’s Medog project on the ‘Great Bend’ of the Yarlung Tsangpo river — the upstream part of the Brahmaputra river — is being viewed with trepidation by India and several other ...

China has tried to reassure India over its plans for a mega dam in the Tibetan Plateau, which has prompted fears it will ...

The river is only partially responsible for carving out the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon. The region sits on tectonic plates and suffers regular earthquakes. It's also one of the deepest canyons ...

The quake brings focus on China’s latest plan to build the World’s biggest dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, very close to the Indian territory of Arunachal Pradesh. Tibetan region ...

Beijing announced construction of a dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra weeks after a reported thaw in frosty China-India bilateral relations.

China’s state news agency recently announced government approval for constructing the world’s largest hydropower project, ...