The Three Gorges Project, the world’s largest hydropower dam, will be environmentally friendly and will not destroy the ecological systems of the Yangtze River area, where the dam is being built, senior officials promised.

Li Yongan, vice president of the China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corp., recently said that his company has worked out several listing plans

A conveyor belt from an American-built tower crane fell more than 60 feet onto a group of Chinese workers, killing three and injuring 30, the Chinese press reported.

Liang Congjie, founder of China’s first environmental NGO and outspoken critic of the Three Gorges dam, wins a Magsaysay Award, Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize.

Asian Assets Direct May 23, 2006 Washington – A controversial Chinese dam that has received billions of dollars in financing from U.S., European and Japanese banks and export credit agencies is being […]

A group of 53 experts, including former Three Gorges engineers, dam experts, parliamentarians and cultural officials, have signed a petition released by Three Gorges Probe, reports the Telegraph.

Citizens complain as local governments illegally claim land for Three Gorges Dam project.

South China Morning Post May 31, 2006 Special inspectors have been sent to units responsible for resettling people affected by the Three Gorges Dam project to purge cadres guilty of corruption after […]

Discovery Channel June 2, 2006 It is now eight years since the People’s Congress of China approved the Three Gorges Dam project – and sparked a global controversy. Slated for completion in […]

Press Advisory, International Rivers Network June 3, 2006 Scandal further Discredits Wall Street Financed Project A group of 53 Chinese senior engineers and academics has made an urgent appeal to China’s leaders […]

The Wall Street Journal June 3, 2006 Shanghai, China- Underlying mounting criticism of China’s Three Gorges Dam is a fundamental shift in the economics of the country’s energy industry. When China signed […]

Los Angeles Times June 4, 2006 China: Problems have dogged Three Gorges facility, with costs put at as much as $70 billion. Now, building official reportedly makes off with $120 million. BEIJING–The […]

Stratfor.com’s Global Intelligence Update June 5, 2006 Summary Citing environmental and financial concerns, members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) petitioned the government to slow work on the Three Gorges […]

South China Morning Post June 5, 2006 In a fresh example of corruption plaguing the massive Three Gorges Dam project, a senior official suspected of having siphoned off more than one billion […]

South China Morning Post June 5, 2006 "I have abandoned all hope," wrote a deputy director of the Three Gorges Economic Development Corporation in the suicide note he left behind when he […]