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Only the Met Office issued the lowest-level yellow weather alert ... which also overlooks the river, said they received text alerts warning of flooding when they were already ankle-deep in water.

China has had a particularly long and terrible history of flooding. In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more than 1000 times. But it is the Hwang Ho or "Yellow River" that has ...

BEIJING -- The Chinese government has pledged more efforts to protect the ecosystem of the Yellow River, the country's second ...