The severe damage to dams in a seismically active region highlights the fault-lines in Beijing’s approach of prioritising ...

From prayer rituals at temples in Taipei and Bangkok to incense offerings and vibrant lion dances in Beijing, hundreds of millions of people across Asia yesterday celebrated the Lunar New Year, ...

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

The epicentre was around 80 km north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers ...

Beijing — A strong earthquake killed at least 126 people in Tibet on Tuesday and left many others trapped as dozens of aftershocks shook the region of western China and across the border in Nepal.

The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

Chinese authorities in Tibet have detected problems, including cracks, at five out of 14 hydropower dams that they have inspected since a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the southwest region last week ...

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

BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 that killed at least 126 people in western China near Nepal on Tuesday was one of the country’s deadliest in recent years.

BEIJING -- A 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Tainan city of China's Taiwan at 7:38 am Sunday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter was monitored 23.17 ...

BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake shook a high-altitude region of western China and areas of Nepal on Tuesday, damaging hundreds of houses, littering streets with rubble and killing at least ...

BEIJING — A strong earthquake killed at least 95 people in Tibet on Tuesday and left many others trapped as dozens of aftershocks shook the high-altitude region of western China and across the ...