(June 25, 1999) Brushing aside U.S. objections, the World Bank board agreed to fund a highly controversial Chinese anti-poverty program that includes resettlement of 58,000 impoverished ethnic-Chinese farmers onto fertile lands historically inhabited by Tibetans.

(June 25, 1999) The World Bank tried yesterday to defuse one of its most bitter disputes in years as it approved a $160-million (US) loan to China that had angered its biggest shareholders and outraged Tibetan activists.

(June 24, 1999) Qinghai component delayed for Inspection Panel Review

(June 24, 1999) China slammed the United States on Thursday for opposing a controversial $160 million World Bank loan that would help resettle impoverished Chinese farmers in an area inhabited by ethnic Tibetans.

(June 23, 1999) Please find attached a copy of a May 26th letter from the Canada Tibet Committee and endorsed by Probe International, urging Canada’s Minister of Finance, Paul Martin, to withhold support for the World Bank’s proposed “China Western Poverty Reduction Project.”

(June 23, 1999) The World Bank board postponed its consideration of a project that would resettle 58,000 ethnic Chinese farmers onto traditionally Tibetan lands.

(June 18, 1999) World Bank staff have rejected accusations by Western advocacy groups that a proposed poverty-alleviation project in a remote and barren area of China is detrimental to Tibetans living there, and will push for the plan’s approval at a meeting of the bank’s board of directors Tuesday.