(March 15, 2006) Export Credit Guarantee Department re-improves its anti-corruption procedures.
Many Chinese farmers oppose Three Gorges resettlement
(March 15, 2006) Of all the problems facing the Three Gorges dam project, none has been more difficult than resettlement, says Probe International’s Dai Qing.
Power ploys
(March 15, 2006) Investors are hoping China’s big generating companies will be able to grow bigger in a restructuring which is believed to be imminent. By 2008, the largest grid is expected to be in operation, centred on the Three Gorges Dam.
Beijing launches press crackdown
(March 15, 2006) China’s censors are launching a comprehensive clampdown on press freedoms, that reveals insecurities among elite threatened by rampant corruption and rural strife as a sensitive Communist party anniversary approaches, officials and journalists said.
Air and water pollution remain serious despite advances
(March 15, 2006) Communiqu√© from China’s State Environmental Protection Administration notes that only a third of mainland cities meet state air quality standards and almost all major rivers are polluted.
Experts urge US government to cancel Liberia’s odious debt
(March 15, 2006) Debt campaigners lobbied the US government for the 100 percent cancellation of Liberia’s odious debts in the lead-up to an address to the US Congress by Liberia’s new president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first woman president.
Corruption impacts China’s Three Gorges resettlement
(March 13, 2006) Probe International’s Dai Qing says it is never too late to stop construction of the Three Gorges dam. Yet dam construction is proceeding on schedule as Three Gorges migrants, without money or jobs, continue to resist resettlement.
Probe International’s Dai Qing weighs in on Three Gorges dam resettlement chaos
(March 13, 2006) Corruption impacts China’s Three Gorges resettlement Probe International fellow Dai Qing says it is never too late to stop construction of the Three Gorges dam.
The corruption crusader
(March 13, 2006) The new head of the World Bank is ruffling feathers, but his intolerance of crooked politicians should be applauded, writes Salil Tripathi.
Plan to tame Yangtze floods
(March 12, 2006) China and the UN are preparing an ambitious plan to prevent any repetition of the disastrous 1998 floods on the Yangtze river.
Following up on Mao’s big idea
(March 12, 2006) China’s government is favouring a water diversion plan once championed by Chairman Mao to help alleviate northern China’s water crisis. But, says Probe International’s Dai Qing, it doesn’t matter to the government whether it works or not.
Paying for apartheid twice (excerpts only)
(March 10, 2006) This report estimates “apartheid-caused debt” at UKP28 billion. That is the UKP11 billion that South Africa borrowed to maintain apartheid, and the UKP17 billion that the neighbouring states borrowed because of apartheid destabilisation and aggression. This is 74% of the present regional debt of UKP38 billion.
Antiwar activists detained at House Appropriations Committee hearing
(March 9, 2006) Two activists from Voices for Creative Nonviolence, interrupted a House Appropriations Committee hearing to call for an end to the funding of the war against Iraq, as well as the cancellation of odious debts incurred by Saddam Hussein’s regime.
World Bank and other bureaucratic failures in foreign aid
(May 8, 2006) Many Americans, shocked at the United Nations oil-for-food scandal, realize that the mismanagement of government aid is not merely a phenomenon which occurs in Washington and State capitals but internationally.
The loans of mass destruction
(March 8, 2006) A few weeks ago, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff in the State Department, Lawrence Wilkerson, revealed to a PBS NOW audience something we all knew anyway about Saddam Hussein’s weapons arsenal: ‘I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United Nations Security Council.’
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