Floods plagued huge sections of China on Sunday, with one northern river stranding 146,000 people as it overflowed its banks. In the south, 2 million Chinese rescue workers prepared to battle a ...

People look at the Yangtze River as they stand on a bridge in Badong ... Xinhua said 1,320 people died in the 1998 floods, though estimates vary and some put the death toll at more than 4,000.

The most "severe floods" since 1998 might hit the Yangtze River this summer, a senior flood-control official warned yesterday. "Meteorological and hydrological features in the Yangtze River valley ...

China and the UN are preparing an ambitious plan to prevent any repetition of the disastrous 1998 floods on the Yangtze river. The work, which will cost $10m (£7m), will restore lost lakes, and reduce ...

At Xihe River ... Yangtze basin in late July and early August, floods will test China's water conservation engineering system that has gone through major reforms in the past 22 years after the ...

"Although water levels in the upper stretches of the Yangtze River have surpassed that of 1998, the flood situation is still not as severe because the Three Gorges Dam has played a key role in ...

Officials from the Yangtze River Flood Control Headquarters told Xinhua that since 1998, when severe floods caused enormous losses in the Yangtze River area, tens of billions of yuan (8.27 yuan ...

Li said that even if the 1998 floods made a comeback now, the current flood prevention system in the Yangtze River would be capable of resisting it. But the river spans a large area and it is ...

It was recorded that in the Yangtze River disastrous flood had happened once every 10 years. During the last one, in 1998, the flood inundated the farmland of 239,000 ha. affected 2.32 million ...

The system will provide flood forecasts along the river basin up to seven days in advance. The last major flooding of the Yangtze, in 1998, killed more than 3000 people and destroyed 5 million homes.

Beijing — Heavy rainfall has swelled China's Yangtze River, threatening UNESCO ... could exceed that seen in 1998, when China was hammered by deadly flooding, but these days, "we are better ...

Although the water level in the Yangtze River, the country's largest, remains high above the alert level, Tang is feeling less worried about the flooding this year than that in 1998. Yangzhong ...