Yangtze River

Short Science, December 30, 2012

30 Dec 2012

One of the key compounds in green tea is Epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG, a potent antioxidant, which supporters say reduces fat gain and enhances fat-burning.

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Champion of Three Gorges Dam dies

15 Jul 2012

Pan Jiazheng, a top hydraulic engineer and staunch advocate of the Three Gorges Dam, has died of cancer, aged 85, in Beijing.

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Mudslide buries dam workers

29 Jun 2012

About 40 workers were buried in a mudslide early yesterday morning near the construction site of what is to be one of the world's largest hydroelectric power plants.

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Upstream dams risk starving Three Gorges of water

6 Jun 2012

Intensive dam-building on the upper Jinsha River - part of the upper reaches of the Yangtze - threaten the massive Three Gorges dam's viability, environmentalists have warned.

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Dam building restraint urged

6 Jun 2012

Deputy Environment Minister Wu Xiaoqing has urged caution amid a big dam-building frenzy on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, saying the lessons of past dam construction in China's southwest...

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It's progress; who cares about people?

5 Jun 2012

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Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

EU fails to adapt to borderless world

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Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Sinohydro expects growth in orders, overseas revenue

Sinohydro, the world's biggest dam builder, plans to increase domestic orders and overseas revenue to double digits this year, as the central government plans to expand the mainland's hydropower...

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Going with the flow

My cameraman, Leon McCarron, and I are now nearing the final stages of our long walk from Mongolia to my home in Hong Kong. Today, we have at last reached the outer edges of Guangzhou, and from...

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Bo may be gone but his pet project is going ahead

One of the most controversial decisions that former Chongqing Communist Party chief Bo Xilai made during his four-year stay in the southwestern mega-city has been upheld, despite the princeling-...

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Let's not go through that again

The Darwin Awards are bestowed annually upon humans who are so mind-bogglingly dim that they earn themselves deselection from the gene pool for dying in the most moronic of circumstances.

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Dam plan speeded up despite warnings

Plans for a controversial dam project on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are poised to move forward in Chongqing despite fierce public opposition, as environmentalists say the project...

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Crash exposes parapet built of weeds

A car accident has revealed that a concrete parapet on top of a dam on a tributary of the Yangtze River in Taizhou, Jiangsu, is filled with weed stems rather than steel reinforcing bars.

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