Chinese police held a German journalist for five hours after he spoke to villagers about controversial plans to dam the Nu River in Yunnan province.

The Three Gorges dam is ready to store a record amount of water after the summer flood season.

Human Rights in China has learned that authorities in Zigui county, Hubei province are keeping friends and family members of injured Three Gorges activist Fu Xiancai under close surveillance that is tantamount to harassment.

Authorities have told the family of paralyzed activist Fu Xiancai not to appeal the decision or file a new complaint.

Seven weeks after a brutal attack on activist Fu Xiancai, authorities in China say preliminary results of the investigation into the assault show that Fu fell and then caused the injuries himself.

While Three Gorges anti-corruption activist Fu Xiancai says he was attacked after talking to German TV, police say he fell down a slope.

According to a new regulation due to take effect Sept. 1, people displaced by dams and reservoirs who registered as urban residents will not benefit from the 20-year subsidy.

To avoid the possibility of corruption and the withholding of payments by local governments, the new subsidy to 22 million people displaced by China’s dams and reservoirs will be paid directly into special savings accounts, officials say,

Report: Move to ease energy controls aimed at increasing efficiency.

China is to increase compensation for millions of farmers relocated to make way for dams and reservoirs, in a bid to prevent rural unrest.

Soaring temperatures and the worst drought in more than 50 years have strained power grids in southwestern China and caused blackouts in at least one city in the east of the country.

The director of a climate-change research centre in Beijing says the global greenhouse effect is the chief reason for droughts, especially in upper latitude regions of the northern hemisphere such as hard-hit Chongqing and Sichuan.