Kathmandu: Italy has withdrawn from China's vast Belt and Road infrastructure plan, more than four years after becoming the only G7 nation to sign up, a government source said on Wednesday.
The long-expected decision was communicated to Beijing three days ago, according to Italian newspaper C...}
China completed its first mainstream hydropower dam on the Mekong, the Manwan dam in Yunnan province, in 1995, and has since planned and built 10 more. Eleven hydropower dams are in various stages of planning and construction in Laos and Cambodia on the mainstream of the Mekong river, alon...}
BEIJING- China's thermal coal futures sank about 13% on Friday, extending their losses since Tuesday when Beijing said it would intervene to cool surging prices of the commodity to help electricity producers out of a widespread power crunch.
The most-active thermal coal futures on Z...}
The mounting calls for China to stop supporting coal power projects overseas have received an answer. Chinese President Xi Jinping announced through a pre-recorded video address to the United Nations General Assembly on 21 September that China “will not build new coal-fired power plants abroad...}
Until last year, the Nepal Electricity Authority had planned a 400kV substation at Ratmate in Nuwakot district for the proposed Nepal-China cross-border transmission line. But a few months ago, the state-owned power utility decided to establish a separate substation in Trishuli Bazaar, near the site...}
Poyang lake, in the middle stretch of the Yangtze, fluctuates dramatically in size each year following the rhythm of the great river. It can reach over 3,500 square kilometres when the river floods in summer, then shrink to less than 200 square kilometres in winter.
The lake is one of the most im...}
Every day, fisher Nguyen Thi Nan and her husband drop traps into the Red River in the city of Lao Cai. They hope to catch fish and prawns at this point in the river, near the China-Vietnam border.
“If we’re lucky, we can catch prawns worth 50,000 Vietnamese dong [about USD 2]; if unlu...}
Beijing [China]: After Beijing's surprise announcement that it would become carbon neutral by 2060, one of the most pressing challenges for China to meet its pledge to pivot towards renewables is overhauling its electricity grid that is the world's largest, say analysts and officials.
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ISLAMABAD: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) on Thursday awarded a $354.6 million worth of contract to Power Construction Corporation of China Ltd (PCCCL) for civil works of the 1,530MW Tarbela 5th Extension Hydropower Project after completion of an international competitive bidding...}
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.
The structure will span the Brahmaputra River before the wate...}