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 ...

But China’s Medog project on the ‘Great Bend’ of the Yarlung Tsangpo river — the upstream part of the Brahmaputra river — is ...

When The Global Times announced that Beijing was going to build a cascade of nine large HPPs on the Yarlung Tsangpo, human ...

The dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River is expected to be the world’s largest hydroelectric project, but it has caused serious concern about the impact on the Brahmaputra – as it is known ...

Concerns swirling over China's recently approved plan to construct the world's largest hydroelectric dam in southern Tibet. It will be built on Tibet's longest river, the Yarlung Tsangpo, and could ...

One section of the Yarlung Tsangpo falls 2,000 metres over a stretch of 50km (31 miles). But what interests Chinese officials is the river’s hydropower potential. On December 25th Xinhua ...

On Christmas Day, China formally approved a controversial 60-gigawatt “super dam” project in the Tibet autonomous region, on the Yarlung Tsangpo ... built near the “Great Bend” close ...

But what is known is that the project will be built on a section referred to as the Grand Canyon, or the "Great Bend", on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo. According to a 2020 estimate by ...

The dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River is expected to be the world's largest hydroelectric project, but it has caused serious concern about the impact on the Brahmaputra - as it is known downstream ...