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Power in Asia June 6, 2006 A top executive with the largest Three Gorges dam subcontractor was fired in January for his decision to buy second-hand, dilapidated construction machinery to build the […]

China Daily June 6, 2006 CHENGDU: China plans to accelerate the development of water resources on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River as part of the country’s efforts to develop the […]

South China Morning Post June 6, 2006 Beijing–The Three Gorges company will not be floated on the stock market because it is beset with economic and technical problems, said Yuan Guolin, retired […]

Agence France Presse June 6, 2006 Clients with stock in the financial services giant Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on Thursday filed a shareholder resolution questioning the bank’s approach to human rights and […]

Agence France Presse June 6, 2006 BEIJING — China has sentenced to death an official who embezzled nearly 1.5 million dollars from the controversial Three Gorges dam project, a court official told […]

Dow Jones International News June 7, 2006 Construction workers will pour 5.4 million cubic meters of cement this year as work on the mammoth Three Gorges dam project accelerates, the state-run Xinhua […]

‘Ultimately the life of this dam is very limited, unless they build other dams to prevent it from silting up,’ said Jennifer Turner, coordinator of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.

According to China Newsweek reports, among the 85,000 plus reservoirs in China, over 30,000 have problems but continue to be operational, constituting a major hidden danger in water resource facilities.

Human Rights in China has learned that Three Gorges resettlement activist Fu Xiancai is being treated for serious injuries following an assault by an unknown assailant.

(June 12, 2006) China plans to build a dozen dams in the upper Yangtze catchment area in the next 20 years, with a combined installed capacity of 90.2 million kilowatts.

Japanese researchers plan to conduct a three-year study to investigate the causal relationship behind an increase in jellyfish off the coast of Japan and changes to the Yangtze River brought about by the Three Gorges dam.

Fu Xiancai, a Three Gorges migrant who has campaigned for years on behalf of people who were moved to make way for the dam, is in hospital with a broken neck and paralyzed from the shoulders down, Human Rights in China reports.

‘The attack on Fu Xiancai, a critic of the government’s treatment of people displaced by the Three Gorges dam project, raises questions about police complicity and highlights the risks Chinese rights campaigners face.’