BEIJING, Dec. 08, 1998 — (Agence France Presse) China’s relocation quota for the giant Three Gorges Dam project has fallen behind this year with only 49,000 people moving out of their homes near the Yangtze river, the China Daily said Tuesday.
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CANDU Exports
(December 1, 1998) The Ministry of Industry last month signed a memorandum of understanding with Canadian and South Korean partners to develop Vietnam’s first nuclear power plant.
Chapter 2. A Profile of Dams in China
The following is an excerpt from the book The River Dragon Has Come!
Three Gorges Probe November 30, 1998
(i) Dam Project in Yunnan Suspended
(ii) New Forest Plan to Prevent Floods
(iii) Shift in Water Management
(iv) Green Group Disbanded in Capital
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Full-power PR
(November 29, 1998) As many developed countries close down their nuclear power plants, nuclear industry sales teams are turning to the Asia Pacific to hock their wares. Using a variety of public relations tactics, biased information is being presented to the Thai people, particularly in the provinces where the plants will likely be located.
Half-lives and half-truths
(November 29, 1998) ENERGY: With increasingly successful alternatives, has the promise of nuclear power run out of steam?
We can’t wipe out debt, says government
(November 4, 1998) The government responds to pressure to wipe out the ‘apartheid debt’ by arguing that it’s not technically feasible. Critics say it is.
November 1998 Campaign Letter
Canada should stop supporting dictators with foreign aid and cash bailouts.
Canadian Discussion Paper for Rome Meeting
(October 31, 1998) The Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative represents approximately 30 churches, inter-church coalitions and church-related organizations who have joined together to sound a strong, new call for justice, peace and the integrity of creation.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission report excerpt
(October 30, 1998) South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) yesterday accused the country’s business sector of helping to sustain apartheid and called for financial contributions from business to make up for past injustices.
NO NUKES ASIA FORUM: Towards a Sustainable Energy Alternative for the 21st Century
(October 27, 1998) We realize that citizens of the industrialized world have been disillusioned by nuclear power and are successfully rejecting it, and that the industry is dying in most of those countries. It is this vanishing domestic market which has recently driven nuclear interests to step-up their sales pitch to Asian countries.
Background report: Resettlement problems of the Three Gorges dam (final part)
(October 26, 1998) Earlier this year, sociologist Wu Ming travelled to the counties around the Three Gorges Dam. Here is the third excerpt from his study, published by the International Rivers Network in March, 1998.
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Chinese press summary: overseas Chinese debate over Three Gorges project
This year’s flood disasters in China have prompted a vociferous debate on the Internet among expatriate Chinese communities in North America.
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