(February 24, 2006) Anti-bribery watchdog Probe International calls OECD guidelines "paper tiger" anyway.
Covering letter for the ECA-Watch briefing paper on bribery in its phase 2 reviews
(February 24, 2006) “The paper details comments made so far about Export Credit Agency practice on combating bribery and looks at the recommendations made by the OECD Working Group on Bribery and Phase 2 peer review examiners for improving ECA practice" regarding bribery.
Geologists urged to dig harder
(February 23, 2006) Vice-Premier Wen Jiabao warns that the success of the Three Gorges dam project hinges on the ability to predict disasters such as landslides, China Daily reports.
China to invest billions on water resources
(February 23, 2006) Beijing announces plans to spend US$48 million in the next few years shoring up embankments and building water-control projects.
Activists hail guidelines on public input into projects
(February 22, 2006) China’s top environmental agency today issued a groundbreaking set of guidelines on the public’s right to participate in decision-making on large construction projects such as big dams.
China longest river shorter than believed: scientist
(February 22, 2006) Chinese scientists recently measured the length of the Yangtze River, China’s longest river, and found that it is 80-some kilometres shorter than believed.
Villages of the dammed
(February 21, 2006) Warnings ignored as massive Three Gorges project uproots Chinese . . . with Canadian help.
India’s Comptroller and Auditor General finds major lapses in government electricity deal with Canadian firm, SNC Lavalin
(February 21, 2006) The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has uncovered serious deviations in a power contract awarded to Canadian construction
firm SNC Lavalin in 1996.
CAG uncovers serious deviations in Canadian power contract
(February 21, 2006) India’s Comptroller and Auditor General finds major lapses in government electricity deal with Canadian firm, SNC Lavalin.
Study puts price on ecological ruin
(February 21, 2006) An official report concludes that much of the water in the Yangtze River is below national standards, unfit for drinking and even “seriously dangerous,” the South China Morning Post reports.
Hydropower firm taps overseas market
(February 21, 2006) China National Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Corp (Sinohydro), China’s largest hydropower construction company, picked up fat gains from the overseas market last year, a company official said.
Corruption charges rock China’s leaders
(February 21, 2006) Corruption charges have swirled for years around Li Peng’s family. New allegations of nepotism involving Huaneng International have angered the party leadership and copies of the publication in which they appeared are being confiscated.
Wolfowitz’s corruption agenda
(February 20, 2006) Nine months into his tenure as president of the World Bank, Paul
Wolfowitz has made headlines mainly by provoking a staff backlash.
Western Companies Sell Their Souls for the Massive Chinese Market
(February 20, 2006) Even with the full weight of the Communist regime behind it, the censorship effort would have been futile without equipment and know-how supplied by Western vendors like Cisco Systems Inc., SunMicrosystems Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp. And with the world’s three dominant Internet companies – Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft – in a blind rush for a piece of China’s spectacular wealth, Beijing has found all the willing accomplices it needs to strip the Internet of its anonymity, its freedom, and to turn it into yet another tool of repression.
China begins construction of controversial Mekong power plant
(February 18, 2006) Over the objections of its neighbours, China has begun building a dam on its portion of the Mekong River, which will be second in size only to the Three Gorges project, Agence France-Presse reports.
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