The region of Gyama Valley, located in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of Maldro Gongkar, is facing the prospect of yet another Chinese owned and operated copper mine in the area. Chinese workers have constructed a purpose-built road into the valley, and local reports state that mining operation could commence as early as this month. ….
Outdoors enthusiasts have expressed concern that alpine sports venues might be built inside a nature reserve in suburban Beijing after the city was named host of the 2022 Winter Olympics. ….
EL CHACO, Ecuador — Where the Andean foothills dip into the Amazon jungle, nearly 1,000 Chinese engineers and workers have been pouring concrete for a dam and a 15-mile underground tunnel. The $2.2 billion project will feed river water to eight giant Chinese turbines designed to produce enough electricity to light more than a third of Ecuador. ….
Beth Walker, Liu Qin 28.07.2015
As outlined in China’s national climate plan, submitted to the United Nations last month, the country’s aim to peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 or sooner will rely heavily on a shift from coal to use of non-fossil fuels. ….
DHARAMSALA, Jul 23: In yet another case of prison death, a Tibetan village leader from Tsawa Zogang County in traditional Kham province in eastern Tibet has died due to severe torture while serving a two year prison term in Chushul prison. ….
By :Michelle Chen
It’s been a while since China built a transcontinental railway in the Americas. Last time, Chinese laborers were deployed to work on the railway that linked the East and West Coasts of the United States—and were rewarded with epidemic labor abuse and racial-exclusion laws. ….
By ANDREW JACOBS
JULY 11, 2015
MADOI, China — If modern material comforts are the measure of success, then Gere, a 59-year-old former yak-and-sheep herder in China’s western Qinghai Province, should be a happy man. ….
India is poised to lose its entire available water supply within 500 years if its current food export policy continues, a new method of calculating “virtual water” flow through trade has shown. China, in contrast, as a net importer of food, will not suffer major losses, according to the study. ….
By Zhang Hongzhou
June 30, 2015
With China’s late-2014 completion of the Zangmu dam, the largest hydropower dam on the Brahmaputra River (known in Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo River), many Indian and international security experts have been warning of the coming of “water wars” between the two countries. ….
Bangladesh has launched a 10-day flood forecasting system this monsoon, with the help of water flow data from upstream India and China.
“Under the newly introduced system, we are providing flood forecasting that contains river flow data of 38 measuring stations of 18 rivers including the major river systems such as the Brahmaputra, Ganga/Padma, Surma and Meghna across the country from this monsoon,” Amirul Islam, director of Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), Bangladesh, told thethirdpole.net. ….
