(May 10, 2000) Hundreds of millions of pounds stolen by the late Nigerian dictator General Sani Abacha and his entourage is stashed in bank accounts in London and Jersey, lawyers working for the Nigerian government claimed yesterday.
Host country agreement between Lao PDR and ADB
(May 10, 2000) ADB President Tadao Chino and Mr. Bounnhang Vorachith, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) signed yesterday the agreement for the establishment of an ADB Resident Mission in Lao PDR. This will pave the way for the official opening of ADB’s Resident Mission in Vientiane.
Untendered EDC contract may violate free-trade deal
(May 10, 2000) The secretive Export Development Corporation may have contravened the free trade agreement by quietly awarding lucrative insurance business to a Liberal-connected Canadian company without a call to tenders, critics say.
Trade action targets Brazil
(May 10, 2000) Canada will ask for $700 million in annual trade retaliation against Brazil today in what would be the largest punitive award ever granted by the World Trade Organization, Canada’s Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew announced yesterday.
ADB protest concludes peacefully
(May 9, 2000) The anti-Asian Development Bank protest dispersed yesterday afternoon without violence, a few hours after the bank’s 33rd annual meeting closed.
Firm with ties to Chretien lands untendered EDC deal
(May 9, 2000) The federal government’s Export Development Corporation has struck an exclusive deal — without a call for tenders –with an insurance company owned by a powerful Canadian corporation with strong connections to Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the Liberal party.
Crown agency cloaks deals in secrecy
(May 9, 2000) While the EDC maintain its standard banking procedure not to disclose details of loans, a former bank regulator is calling for an independant review of the agency’s practises.
Poor exempt from water tax
(May 8, 2000) A long police line seals the entrance to a Chiang Mai hotel as activists protest against the ADB meeting yesterday. Talks to set criteria, but NGOs sceptical.
China’s symbol, and source, of power
‘Critics of the project – they are many, in China and abroad – have questioned whether building a giant dam is really scientific in the 21st century, when the United States and other nations are weighing the wisdom of damming their rivers.’
Three Gorges dam set in stone
Now that China’s massive dam has been built, what will it mean for the environment?
ADB’s questions and answers re: NGO-related matters
(May 7, 2000) A letter from ADB Vice President Shin accompanies these questions and answers.
Letter to NGOs from ADB Vice President,
May 7, 2000) Thank you for your invitation to ADB to attend the People’s Forum 2000. I appreciate the final statement of the People’s Forum that you presented to me. I also wish to thank you for allowing me to present President Chino’s letter to the People’s Forum.
ADB letter to Thai NGOs and briefing
(May 7, 2000) Thank you for your invitation to ADB to attend the People’s Forum 2000. I appreciate the final statement of the People’s Forum that you presented to me. I also wish to thank you for allowing me to present President Chino’s letter to the People’s Forum.
People’s Declaration to the ADB
(May 5, 2000) Thai people argue the ADB to stop all loans and funds for all projects in Thailand.
DEVELOPMENT-ASIA: AsDB Chants New Mantra at Annual Meet
(May 5, 2000) The new mantra of ‘poverty reduction’ will dominate discussions at the Asian Development Bank’s (AsDB) annual meeting, which starts Saturday in this northern Thai city amid tight security and protests from NGOs.
Probe International 