Minitrue: Oriental Star, Aung San Suu Kyi
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Yangtze River
Drawing the News: Li Keqiang on Scene at the Yangtze
Four days after the June 1 capsizing of the Oriental Star cruise ship, only 14 of the ship’s...
Yangtze News Controlled as Rescue Hopes Fade
Following a directive on Tuesday banning Chinese journalists from traveling to the site of Monday...
Key Section of Water Diversion Project Opens
After a decade of construction, the middle route of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion...
China’s Next Water Project Uproots Over 330,000
Originally thought up by Mao Zedong in the 50s and given Beijing’s go-ahead in 2001, the...
China’s Dam Boom “a Faustian Bargain”
China has built 22,000 dams taller than 15 meters since the 1950s, displacing some 16 million...
Upper Yangtze Ecology “Collapses”
At China.org.cn, Wu Jin reports the devastation of the upper Yangtze river by overfishing,...
Water in China: Desperate Measures
The Economist highlights water pollution, disappearing rivers and U.N. standard-shattering water...
Beijing Sees Its Own Reflection in Water Crisis
Critics accuse Chinese authorities of overemphasizing more politically convenient explanations for...
Improved Outlook for Himalayan Water Supply
Ars Technica’s Scott K. Johnson reports that the effects of retreating Himalayan glaciers on China’s rivers this century may be fairly limited, offering some rare respite from a stream of bad news about the...
Yangtze Freshwater Turtles on Verge of Extinction
Scientists in China are working to save the world’s largest freshwater turtle, which is on the verge of extinction, with only four known to be alive. Once prevalent in the Yangtze River and other parts of China and...
Looking Deeper Into The Yangtze River
The Sydney Morning Herald’s National Travel Editor Anthony Dennis describes his cruise from Chongqing to Shanghai, revealing what makes the Yangtze River attractive from his own perspective after the construction of the...
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...
Water Shortages: Desalination vs. Conservation
Seawater desalination may offer a promising supplement to diversion of freshwater to China’s dry north-east, especially as severe droughts in the south place the latter’s basic logic in question. Critics argue,...
Renewed Damming in China Sparks Concern Downstream
“Shocking” news emerged last month of Chinese plans to resume hydropower exploitation of the Nu (Salween), Lancang (Mekong) and Jinsha rivers. At The Hindu, Ananth Krishnan reported that three new dams have also been...
Ban on Nu River Dams Washed Away
China’s State Council has announced plans to resume hydropower development on the Nu (Salween), Lancang (Mekong) and Jinsha (a tributary of the Yangtze) rivers. Outgoing premier Wen Jiabao had repeatedly intervened to...
8 Questions and a Podcast on ‘China’s Urban Billion’
At China Real Time Report, Tom Orlik discusses urbanization, hukou reform, land ownership, urban sustainability and the price of heroin in Chongqing with Tom Miller, author of China’s Urban Billion. We’re hearing a lot...
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