Chinese Groups Seek to Halt a Dam and Save a Treasured Place
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Environmentalists in China are fighting plans for a hydropower project that they say would endanger one of the world's deepest gorges.
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two Chinese engineers working on the Gomal Zam dam project in Tank district near the troubled South Waziristan region were kidnapped on Saturday morning.
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By Cynthia Sewell, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Mar. 4--A group of farmers, ranchers, timber companies, conservationists and sportsmen are working together to save farm and ranch land from development.
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The Temple of Lom Kaen in the devastated tourist hub of Khao Lak has, for many, become the last stop in the search for missing loved ones.
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Tourists in China have another potential point of interest to add to their sightseeing itineraries now that the country's biggest nuclear power station has opened its doors to the public.
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Plans for controversial dam that would have forced the relocation of 100,000 residents abandoned
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Talks aimed at freeing two Chinese engineers taken hostage by al-Qaida-linked militants in a lawless region near the Afghanistan border have broken down and tribal elders said Wednesday they would support the military using force to free the pair.
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A leading environmental group called Friday for protection for the great white shark and humphead wrasse coral fish, whose numbers have plunged because of overfishing and China&#39;s growing appetite for exotic foods.
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Hundreds of tribesmen gathered Tuesday near the area where suspected al-Qaida-linked militants are holding two Chinese engineers and demanding safe passage to their reputed leader, a former U.S. prisoner from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials and residents said.
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Authorities beefed up security for Chinese engineers at an oil field and a refinery in a tribal region after local tribesmen mounted protests to demand jobs, an official said Thursday.
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Chinese engineers Wang Ende and Wang Peng were working on a dam project in Pakistan for state-run Chinese firm Sino Hydro Corp. when they were kidnapped in the South Waziristan tribal region on Saturday.
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PESHAWAR: Two Chinese engineers working at the Gomal Zam Dam project in South Waziristan Agency were kidnapped along with a security guard and a co-worker on Saturday morning.
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Federal officials are considering releasing a large amount of water from the Glen Canyon Dam into the Grand Canyon early next year in an effort to rebuild beaches and aid endangered fish.
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ENGINEERS were last night battling to stop a dam bursting and destroying hundreds of homes.   Some 700 people were evacuated after two cracks appeared in the structure, which holds back 100 million tonnes of water.
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The fate of a campaign by China  to curb headlong investment and start cleaning up its polluted  environment turns on businessmen like Cai Nianguang.
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Because of tourism, small Chinese historical towns are now protected from the onslaught of bulldozers but their inhabitants complain they are not enjoying any benefits from the first masses of visitors.
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Senior officials in Beijing are now grumbling that the megaproject on the Yangtze is turning into an environmental nightmare