(February 12, 2006) Protesters raise questions inside the meeting about the U.S. investment bank’s involvement in the financing of the Three Gorges dam.

(February 13, 2006) China will soon begin a drive to drum up financing from stock markets, despite expected protests. After the initial public offering in Shanghai, a listing in Hong Kong is likely and possibly in London as well.

(February 13, 2006) Beijing has told the provinces they will have to buy Three Gorges power before purchasing from any other source. Now officials in charge of building the dam also want the central government to absorb 25% of the project’s debts.

(February 28, 2002) The success of China’s vast Three Gorges dam project is under threat from large amounts of pollution and toxic waste that could badly contaminate a reservoir due to be created for the scheme, a senior official has warned.

(February 14, 2006) The company building China’s controversial Three Gorges Dam, the world’s biggest hydroelectric project, is gearing up to tap domestic and overseas capital to fund construction, says a source close to the firm

(February 14, 2006) Eight renowned Chinese painters will work for the next six months on a huge panorama of the Three Gorges, “to retain its beauty on a scroll painting 50 metres long,” CCTV reports.

(February 12, 2002) Shanghai – Surrounded by the smell of chili and bacon unfamiliar to most Shanghaiers, former residents from the Three Gorges Dam area are observing the Chinese year of horse at their new homes in Chongming County in the east China metropolis.

(February 15, 2006) Blocking off the Three Gorges dam diversion channel, due to take place in November this year, will pose major technical challenges, the Xinhua news agency reports.

(February 18, 2006) The widow of a construction worker who died at the dam site has withdrawn her lawsuit against the U.S. firm after being offered compensation and an apology.

(February 20, 2006) Construction workers on Wednesday started to dismantle the remaining part of the second-phase Three Gorges cofferdam, as the average height of the dam of the world’s largest hydro-power project on the Yangtze River is above 140 meters.

(February 20, 2006) Xinhua news agency lists the project objectives for this year.

(January 20, 2002) Qin Feiyun dices greens with a cleaver in her restaurant, puts an oiled wok on the gas stove and waits for customers who never come. Qin’s family recently joined thousands of people forced to evacuate homes in central China that will be flooded by the reservoir of the giant Three Gorges Dam.

(February 21, 2006) Construction workers start to dismantle the remaining part of the second-phase Three Gorges cofferdam