(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.’
Pinochet’s wealth: fake identity also hid fortune in Chile
(March 8, 2006) While Chile battled recession in the early 80s, General Augusto Pinochet was using a false name to hide his fortune in Chilean banks.
Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa Report Released
(March 7, 2005) The long awaited final report of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa calls on the developed world to help Africa curb corruption by cleaning up its own act, reports the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
Edict banning logging proves no match for greed, poverty
(March 7, 2006) The China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corporation announced this year it would build two giant dams on the Golden Sands River, which it says are urgently needed to trap sediment that would otherwise flow into the Three Gorges reservoir.
World Bank’s anti-graft drive ‘needs resources’
(March 6, 2006) The former head of Canada’s development aid agency has suggested that corruption in World Bank projects still goes unchecked, and that anti-graft actions were often disjointed from other aspects of the bank’s work.
Is high-level graft really punishable?
(March 6, 2006) The ongoing revelations of corruption at the heart of Kenya’s government pose the question: what will happen to the masterminds?
Nu valley residents miss the boat
(March 4, 2006) China’s top environmental agency last week issued a set of “provisional guidelines” on the public’s right to participate in decision-making on large projects such as big dams.
Is Zhaiwan’s pipe dream coming true?
(March 3, 2006) Residents ofZhaiwan village in Hubei province, where a cancer cluster has been linked to the severe pollution of local rivers, have been promised clean drinking water piped right into their homes by the end of this month.
China to build world’s largest water-diversion project
(March 2, 2006) Despite concerns among environmental experts that cheaper, safer alternatives are being overlooked, officials have announced they are firmly embarked on the massive south-north water transfer scheme, aimed at solving China’s deepening water crisis.
Why poor countries are poor
(March 1, 2006) They call Douala the “armpit of Africa.” Lodged beneath the bulging shoulder of West Africa, this malaria-infested city in southwestern Cameroon is humid, unattractive, and smelly.
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