(December 11, 2000) China’s Exim Bank agrees to provide credit for the construction of the first overseas BOT project by China’s power industry: Kirirom I Hydropower Plant Rehabilitation Project, in Cambodia.

(December 7, 2000) Thank you for your fax letter dated 1 December 2000 (received here on 4 December due to the intervening weekend and time difference) concerning the Samut Prakam Wastewater Management Project in Thailand. Your interest in and attention to this ADB project are sincerely appreciated. As the Executive Director for Canada at the ADB, you can be assured that I take very seriously the allegations that you as a Canadian NGO have raised in your letter concerning this project.

(December 3, 2000) This article from a Thai newspaper discusses Probe International’s opposition to the ADB’s wastewater treatment project in Samut Prakan.

(December 1, 2000) Report commissioned by the International Rivers Network highlights serious flaws in the Theun Hinboun Power Company’s ten-year plan for managing social and environmental damages arising from the ADB-financed Theun-Hinboun dam in Lao PDR.

(November 26, 2000) The launch of the World Bank-sponsored World Commission on Dams (WCD) two years ago was seen as the first attempt to review the performance of 1,000 dams in 79 countries.

(November 21, 2000) About 200 men yesterday staged a violent raid on a village founded by anti-dam protesters on the crest of the Pak Moon dam in Ubon Ratchathani’s Khong Chiam district.

(November 20, 2000) Villagers were injured when baton-wielding men forcibly evicted Pak Mool dam opponents from the dam site in Ubon Ratchathani and set fire to their makeshift wooden shelters, witnesses said.

(November 10, 2000) The power departments of China and Thailand have formally signed an investment agreement on jointly developing Jinghong Hydropower Station in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Thailand will buy electricity from Yunnan which is rich in hydropower resources.