(May 14, 2000) The U.S. Export-Import Bank posts details of its transactions on behalf of American companies on the Web for the entire world to see. Its Canadian counterpart, however, conducts its business behind closed doors.
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Liberal donors get billions in EDC help
(May 13, 2000) Many of the Liberal party’s biggest corporate donors have collectively received billions in financial assistance from the taxpayer-backed Export Development Corp. — on whose board Liberal appointees of Prime Minister Jean Chretien form the powerful nucleus.
Aid agencies should get out of dam building
(May 12, 2000) Grainne Ryder attended the final consultation of the World Commission on Dams in Vietnam earlier this year. She argued there that donors should not subsidise dam building and that WCD is part of the problem.
NGOs protest against environmental impacts of Asian Development Bank projects
(May 12, 2000) More than 1,000 people met in the Thai city of Chiang Mai prior to the annual general meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to protest against ADB projects and to highlight the bank’s undemocratic methods of operating.
Three Gorges to become center for China power grid in 2011
The Three Gorges hydropower station will become the centre for China’s power grid in 2011 when it goes into full operation with 32 power turbines, a senior official says.
EDC formed alliance with London Guarantee
(May 12, 2000) Once again the Citizen has drawn erroneous conclusions about the Export Development Corporation’s actions, this time with respect to the alliance we have forged with London Guarantee ("Firm with ties to Chretien lands untendered EDC deal," May 9). This continues the pattern of unbalanced and distorted reporting that has characterized the Citizen’s coverage of EDC over the preceding weeks.
Dominga and Denese, and the story of the village of Rio Negro
(May 11, 2000) After 18 years, Denese Becker — from Algona, Iowa — is going home … to Rio Negro, a small, isolated Mayan village in the department of Baja Verapaz, Guatemala.
Abacha’s stolen millions in British banks
(May 10, 2000) Hundreds of millions of pounds stolen by the late Nigerian dictator General Sani Abacha and his entourage is stashed in bank accounts in London and Jersey, lawyers working for the Nigerian government claimed yesterday.
Host country agreement between Lao PDR and ADB
(May 10, 2000) ADB President Tadao Chino and Mr. Bounnhang Vorachith, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) signed yesterday the agreement for the establishment of an ADB Resident Mission in Lao PDR. This will pave the way for the official opening of ADB’s Resident Mission in Vientiane.
Untendered EDC contract may violate free-trade deal
(May 10, 2000) The secretive Export Development Corporation may have contravened the free trade agreement by quietly awarding lucrative insurance business to a Liberal-connected Canadian company without a call to tenders, critics say.
Trade action targets Brazil
(May 10, 2000) Canada will ask for $700 million in annual trade retaliation against Brazil today in what would be the largest punitive award ever granted by the World Trade Organization, Canada’s Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew announced yesterday.
ADB protest concludes peacefully
(May 9, 2000) The anti-Asian Development Bank protest dispersed yesterday afternoon without violence, a few hours after the bank’s 33rd annual meeting closed.
Firm with ties to Chretien lands untendered EDC deal
(May 9, 2000) The federal government’s Export Development Corporation has struck an exclusive deal — without a call for tenders –with an insurance company owned by a powerful Canadian corporation with strong connections to Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the Liberal party.
Crown agency cloaks deals in secrecy
(May 9, 2000) While the EDC maintain its standard banking procedure not to disclose details of loans, a former bank regulator is calling for an independant review of the agency’s practises.
Poor exempt from water tax
(May 8, 2000) A long police line seals the entrance to a Chiang Mai hotel as activists protest against the ADB meeting yesterday. Talks to set criteria, but NGOs sceptical.
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