(December 16, 1999) Uneconomic and outmoded, the Three Gorges dam will have difficulty finding customers for its electricity in China’s rapidly modernizing electricity market, according to a new Probe International report

(November 29, 1999) After thousands of years of letting their sewage flow downstream and out to sea, Chongqing and other Yangtze cities now face the prospect of it staying in the water that laps their shores.

(October 1, 1999) The resettlement of up to two million people who will be flooded out of their homes by China’s massive Three Gorges dam is in chaos, according to a Chinese sociologist.

(July 9, 1998) Probe International is today launching the first bilingual Internet information news service about China’s Three Gorges dam, the world’s largest hydro-electric project. Although already under construction, debate about the controversial dam on China’s Yangtze river continues. Technical problems, such as rapidly accumulating silt and a weaker-than-expected rock foundation, have already slowed construction. Meanwhile popular resistance to the massive resettlement of nearly 2 million people is threatening to provoke conflict between the state and the affected public.

(January 8, 2006) Next year China will flood the Yangtze valley, and one of the world’s great sights will be lost forever. Go now before it’s too late, the author urges.

(January 9, 2006) Chongqing announces plans to draw tourists to the dam area.

(January 13, 2006) The water level in the reservoir after the dam is completed in 2009 will affect local scenic sights to some extent, but is expected to add to the beauty of the Three Gorges, the official Chinese news agency says.

(January 20, 2006) The temporary cofferdam in front of the Three Gorges Dam was demolished May 1, introducing the next phase of construction.

(January 20, 2006) Demolition of the Three Gorges cofferdam on May 1 has not caused a water-level rise near the main dam, engineers said, adding, however, that some scenic spots will be submerged when the reservoir is filled to 135 metres in June 2003.

(January 20, 2006) With clouds gathering over Huaneng Power International’s decision to invest in the controversial Three Gorges project, some research analysts have come to the mainland power company’s defence.

(January 20, 2006) A team of experts has deemed the Three Gorges dam ‘safe and reliable enough to hold water,’ the official Chinese news agency reports.

(January 20, 2006) Local interests are battling over a proposal to restore seasonal flows to the floodplain of the much-dammed and ecologically imperilled Missouri River. Is there a lesson here for the builders of the Three Gorges dam?

(January 21, 2006) The dismissal of the Beijing bureau chief of the South China Morning Post has sparked claims of press-freedom restrictions in Hong Kong. While with the Post, Jasper Becker broke stories on corruption in the Three Gorges resettlement operation.