UNESCO has not included the Three Parallel Rivers region in Yunnan province in its most recent list of world heritage sites in danger
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Combat corruption: commit to the conventions
(July 12, 2006) Activists worry that “the failure” of G8 member states to renew existing commitments to monitoring corruption will undermine negotiations at the forthcoming Conference of the States Parties.
Regulator: China’s plants pose risk
(January 30, 2001) Most of China’s chemical plants pose a ‘grave environmental risk’ because they are located too close to cities and rivers, the State Environmental Protection Administration warns.
Half of China’s chemical plants endanger environment
(July 11, 2006) China’s State Environmental Protection Administration says 45 per cent of the country’s chemical and petrochemical plants, most located along rivers and lakes or in densely populated areas, pose a major environmental risk.
Flood control, drought relief base opens on Pearl River
The new flood-control command centre is China’s fifth to be located in a specific drainage area.
Chinese-Thai-Burmese dam projects raise humanitarian, environmental concerns
(July 11, 2006) ‘If all the projects go ahead, the Salween will become one of the world’s most heavily dammed river systems, with all the dislocation to people and wildlife that entails.’
100 million-dollar ADB China loan to clean up Wuhan waterways
(July 11, 2006) The Asian Development Bank loan is to be spent on upgrading wastewater treatment facilities, expanding collection networks and building larger stormwater pumping stations for the city of Wuhan.
Government goodbyes gas for hydropower
(July 10, 2006) A Burmese government official says construction on the Hutgyi dam on the Salween (Nu) River will start in December 2006 or January 2007, ahead of the November 2007 date in the initial agreement with Thailand and China.
China power appetite ‘wasteful’
(July 10, 2006) China is building too many power stations, says Paris-based energy think tank International Energy Agency.
‘Aid only feeds Africa’s corruption’
(July 8, 2006) In a recent address on western aid to Africa, outspoken Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda said "the best thing the West can do" for Africa "is nothing."
China says it’s building hydro-electric station over Sutlej
(July 7, 2006) China’s plan to build a barrage across the Sutlej River in Tibet has raised concerns that Beijing ‘may finally be controlling the flow of water into India.’
On the road to forgiveness, justice is forgotten
(July 7, 2006) The World Bank’s high-profile focus on curbing corruption looks set to continue but to what effect can the Bank implement its anti-graft agenda when the Bank itself has been "the cause of corruption, and odious and illegitimate debts, in the past?" asks Gail Hurley of the
Brussels-based NGO network Eurodad.
China’s new dam builders and electricity regulator
(July 6, 2006) The operation and regulation of China’s new dam builders as commercial power generating companies will set the pace for how rivers will be regulated in the six-country Mekong region for years to come. The following paper was delivered by Grainne Ryder of Probe International to the Mekong Region Waters Dialogue, which took place in Vientiane, Lao PDR, on July 6-7.
Future of the west set to follow Yangtze
(July 3, 2006) Viewpoint Beijing’s determination to modernise the Yangtze will transform the mainland’s economic landscape over the next 20 years.
Chinese law would apply to all media
(July 3, 2006) A Chinese draft law that threatens to fine domestic and foreign news media for reporting without permission on ‘sudden incidents’ is intended ‘to prevent malicious behavior by news media that willfully mislead the public.’
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