China has launched an ambitious tunnelling project designed to divert water from the mighty ... the world's largest dam, into the Han River, a significant tributary of the Yangtze River.

[Photo/Xinhua] China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project ... crossing beneath the Yellow River before arriving at Beijing's water treatment plants. In Tianjin, the project's reach has ...

For South Asian states, the biggest threat, apart from development of a dam system is a potential diversion of water from the Brahmaputra River if the third phase of China's South-North Water ...

China has been paying fuel subsidies to fishing vessels, based on size and time spent at sea, since 2006, expanding fishing capacity, overfishing and other sins.