December 24, 2007

As Beijing admits faults on hydroelectric project, a crusader presses her campaign, Shai Oster reports

Journalist Dai Qing has crusaded for two decades against China’s Three Gorges dam. Despite the difficulties of making her message heard in China, she is continuing her campaign over the Internet and through overseas outlets. She is even taking on other issues, such as the Beijing Olympics, which she describes as a waste of resources in a country where millions still live without access to clean drinking water, decent education or health care.

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