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Three Gorges Damned

BELEAGUERED OLD Wang Xiaofeng, the head of the State Council office in charge of the China's Three Gorges Project, has obviously had a very hard time of it of late. The Xinhua news agency cited Wang in ...full story at meoldchina

from meoldchina on Tue, Nov 27 2007

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