Tag: Sichuan

China’s Tallest Dam Gets Environmental Green Light

At The Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman reports the approval by Chinese environmental officials of a proposed 314-meter-tall dam despite fears about its effects on the ecology of Sichuan’s Dadu River, an indirect tributary of the Yangtze. The new dam would stand almost 130 meters taller than the Three Gorges Dam, and 14 taller than the current world leader, Tajikistan’s Soviet-built Nurek Dam.

May 18, 2013 12:36 AM

Abducted Man Used Google Maps to Find Home

A Sichuan man who was abducted at the age of five and taken to Fujian province says he used Google Maps to figure out the

May 17, 2013 2:29 AM

Anatomy of Two Protests: Kunming vs. Chengdu

East by Southeast, a new group blog on “China’s footprint in Southeast Asia and […] the big questions surrounding C

May 6, 2013 12:48 PM

After Quake, Stories of Horror and Hope Abound

According to the latest official count, the earthquake that hit Sichuan province last weekend has so far been the cause o

April 25, 2013 10:35 PM

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