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India plans mega-dam to counter China water fears
AFP, Published on 30/09/2025
» RIEW (INDIA) - On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam -- India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water.
China starts building mega-dam in Tibet
News Agencies, Published on 19/07/2025
» Chinese Premier Li Qiang launched construction of a mega-dam project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet on Saturday, with a total planned investment of 1.2 trillion yuan ($167 billion), according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
China's Three Gorges Dam sees record tourists in H1
Xinhua News Agency, Published on 05/07/2023
» WUHAN: The Three Gorges Dam at the world's largest hydropower project welcomed a record number of tourists in the first half of this year, according to the China Three Gorges Corporation.
Meandering along the Seine: France's roving plastic rubbish
AFP, Published on 25/05/2023
» ROUEN, France: The scrap of red plastic in among the waterside reeds in northern France could be any fragment of the throwaway consumerism piling up across the planet, flowing into rivers, choking animals, even seeping into our bloodstreams.
What's behind South Africa's flood disaster
AFP, Published on 18/04/2022
» DURBAN, South Africa: South Africa, the continent's most industrialised country, has largely escaped the tropical cyclones that regularly hit its neighbours.
Montenegro's China-backed $1bn road to nowhere
AFP, Published on 27/05/2021
» PODGORICA: Two sleek new roads vanish into mountain tunnels high above a sleepy Montenegrin village, the unlikely endpoint of a billion-dollar project bankrolled by China that is threatening to derail the tiny country's economy.
China's plans for Himalayan super dam stoke fears in India
AFP, Published on 11/04/2021
» BEIJING: China is planning a mega dam in Tibet able to produce triple the electricity generated by the Three Gorges -- the world's largest power station -- stoking fears among environmentalists and in neighbouring India.
Taiwan mourns after deadliest train disaster in decades
AFP, Published on 03/04/2021
» HUALIEN (TAIWAN) - Salvage teams began removing mangled train carriages on Saturday after Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades killed at least 50 people, as flags flew half-mast across an island plunged into mourning.
At least 49 killed in Taiwan railway crash
AFP, Published on 02/04/2021
» TAIPEI: At least 49 people were killed on Friday when a packed train derailed inside a tunnel in eastern Taiwan at the start of a holiday weekend, the island’s worst railway accident in decades.
A year in Wuhan: AFP's Guardian agency photographer of 2020
AFP, Published on 17/12/2020
» WUHAN (CHINA) - AFP's Chilean photographer Hector Retamal, based in Shanghai, has been named news agency photographer of the year by The Guardian for work including his reporting on the ordeal of people in Wuhan, the city where the Covid-19 pandemic started.