(March 8, 2006) A few weeks ago, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff in the State Department, Lawrence Wilkerson, revealed to a PBS NOW audience something we all knew anyway about Saddam Hussein’s weapons arsenal: ‘I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United Nations Security Council.’
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Pinochet’s wealth: fake identity also hid fortune in Chile
(March 8, 2006) While Chile battled recession in the early 80s, General Augusto Pinochet was using a false name to hide his fortune in Chilean banks.
Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa Report Released
(March 7, 2005) The long awaited final report of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa calls on the developed world to help Africa curb corruption by cleaning up its own act, reports the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
Edict banning logging proves no match for greed, poverty
(March 7, 2006) The China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corporation announced this year it would build two giant dams on the Golden Sands River, which it says are urgently needed to trap sediment that would otherwise flow into the Three Gorges reservoir.
World Bank’s anti-graft drive ‘needs resources’
(March 6, 2006) The former head of Canada’s development aid agency has suggested that corruption in World Bank projects still goes unchecked, and that anti-graft actions were often disjointed from other aspects of the bank’s work.
Is high-level graft really punishable?
(March 6, 2006) The ongoing revelations of corruption at the heart of Kenya’s government pose the question: what will happen to the masterminds?
Nu valley residents miss the boat
(March 4, 2006) China’s top environmental agency last week issued a set of “provisional guidelines” on the public’s right to participate in decision-making on large projects such as big dams.
Is Zhaiwan’s pipe dream coming true?
(March 3, 2006) Residents ofZhaiwan village in Hubei province, where a cancer cluster has been linked to the severe pollution of local rivers, have been promised clean drinking water piped right into their homes by the end of this month.
China to build world’s largest water-diversion project
(March 2, 2006) Despite concerns among environmental experts that cheaper, safer alternatives are being overlooked, officials have announced they are firmly embarked on the massive south-north water transfer scheme, aimed at solving China’s deepening water crisis.
Why poor countries are poor
(March 1, 2006) They call Douala the “armpit of Africa.” Lodged beneath the bulging shoulder of West Africa, this malaria-infested city in southwestern Cameroon is humid, unattractive, and smelly.
Cofferdam removal begins
Three Gorges Probe February 27, 2006 China Daily reports that work has begun on dismantling the temporary cofferdam built around the Three Gorges dam construction site when the main channel of the […]
China issuing first-ever fishing ban
(February 27, 2006) Alarmed by a sharp drop in fish populations, China plans to issue its first-ever ban on commercial fishing along the Yangtze River.
‘Few countries have much mettle for enforcing anti-bribery laws’
(February 27, 2006) According to Probe International in Toronto, Germany and Japan are challenging efforts to tighten anti-corruption guidelines covering companies supported by official export credit agencies.
Three Gorges dam: Fact Sheet
Just about everything you might want to know about the world’s biggest dam, at least in terms of its facts, figures, cubic metres and kilowatts.
Study says bad data by China inflated global fishing yields
Two University of British Columbia scientists have found evidence that substantial overreporting of the marine fish catch, mainly by China, has skewed official UN figures and caused complacency about the state of global fish stocks.
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