(April 20, 2008) Emergency workers are still trying to rescue almost 200 people from a village that was nearly inundated by a massive landslide near the Three Gorges dam in central China on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency reports.
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The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 11
Chapter 11: ‘Time to lay down the law’ At a conference attended by prefecture and county officials on April 21, the joint work team gave a progress report to prefecture commissioner Xu […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 10
Ying Xing March 22, 2005 Chapter 10: Baiyang 16 goes into battle With the dispute over the calcium-carbide factory now a thing of the past, the affected groups in Shanyang turned their […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 9
Ying Xing March 13, 2005 Chapter 9: Let them eat bread! On August 1, 1987, 200 peasants marched to the Dahe station, led by Tailor Wang, Jiang Youheng, Wu Qixian, Yao […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 8
Ying Xing March 9, 2005 Chapter 8: Good guys and bad apples “The top leaders in Beijing are our benefactors, the provincial leaders are like our family members, there are good […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 7
Ying Xing March 2, 2005 Chapter 7: The conflict heats up On October 28, 1984, the head of Shanyang township, Yang Yongquan, was riding his bike over the bridge leading to […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 6
Ying Xing February 22, 2005 Chapter 6: In search of an honest judge After the county and prefecture governments made it clear that local Shanyang cadres had not, in their view, […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 5
Ying Xing February 16, 2005 Chapter 5: Bending the rules “Many problems have been solved to date but there are still problems left over from history. There is therefore a need to […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 4
Ying Xing February 10, 2005 Chapter 4: A crowing rooster and the lonely ghosts A crowing rooster (jiao ji gong) refers to 1) a person who deliberately makes trouble or 2) a […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 2
Ying Xing January 26, 2005 Chapter 2: Down to the grassroots in Shanyang A huge rock lies across the heart of the river like a dragon, The sound of waves can be […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 1
Ying Xing January 20, 2005 Chapter 1: Leftover problems of the Dahe Dam “Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the state has allocated a great deal of money to […]
Three Gorges shiplock not up to speed
Improving navigation on the Yangtze was a chief justification for going ahead with the Three Gorges project, but so far the dam’s shiplock has proved to be a bottleneck and delays have become routine.
Three Gorges villagers in international appeal
Human Rights in China has received an urgent appeal from 650 Three Gorges migrants who say their leader is at imminent risk of detention because of his activism on their behalf.
China wages war on opium in the Three Gorges area
As police try to crack down an opium-poppy growing in the heart of the Three Gorges reservoir area, local officials draw links between the illicit cash crop and the economic turmoil in the region caused by dam-related resettlement.
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