(March 23, 2006) China is stepping up its fight against sewage and waste in the Yangtze River in answer to growing public concern about ecological disaster.
Lift burden of debt from neighbors
(March 22, 2006) Florida: The time has come for Floridians to talk seriously about the debt burden our Latin American neighbors face.
Chongqing unveils plan for two Yangtze dams
(March 22, 2006) Chongqing, the sprawling municipality at the upstream end of the Three Gorges reservoir, has revealed a plan to build two big dams on the main channel of the Yangtze River, the Chongqing Morning Post (Chongqing chenbao) reported yesterday [Mar 21].
Senior official stresses environmental protection
(March 21, 2006) China must make more efforts to improve its deteriorating environment, said the chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
Yangtze/Jinsha dams: Fact box
(March 21, 2006) Information on just a few of the scores of dams planned for the Yangtze and Jinsha (as the upper Yangtze is called).
BAE ordered to name payment agents
(March 17, 2006) BAE Systems, Britain’s biggest and most influential arms company, has been ordered to reveal the identity of agents it uses to make secret payments abroad.al the identity of agents it uses to make secret payments abroad.
Agency to boost anti-corruption
(March 17, 2006) The Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) offers UK exports insurance against non-payment.
At water’s end
(March 17, 2006) Excerpt from a World Bank report entitled “Action Agenda for Water Sector Strategy for North China”.
China’s inner circle reveals big unrest
(March 16, 2006) New report describes spreading pattern of "collective protests and group incidents," and says relations between party officials and the masses are "tense, with conflicts on the rise."
China’s eco conscience
(March 16, 2006) Collaboration is key for China’s growing number of NGOs. China’s most famous environmentalist, Probe International fellow, Dai Qing, is still banned from all domestic media for her fierce criticism of the Three Gorges dam.
Significant victory for the fight against corruption
(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.
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