记者第一站来到东江发源地江西省寻鸟县，在东江流经县城的河流上看见的场面可谓触目惊心：河中淤泥堆积丶杂草丛生，河水几近枯竭。当地居民对记者说，近7年当地水土开始变坏，附近山头上森林消失，取而代之的是一片片桔林，许多光山就此形成。每逢遇上天雨季节，大量的泥沙就会被冲入东江......
《哭泣的东江》第二站，记者在东江源头直击当地无序开采稀土导致山林被毁丶大兴水电站令下游水量减少的实况，采访期间遭到阻拦。环保专家表示，中国滥采稀土问题严重，造成许多天灾人祸，当局需要大力整治。（毕子默报道）
东江之行第三站记者抵达广东河源。稀土过度开发造成当地水灾连年，一些村庄整条被淹没丶村民家破人亡。当局亚运期间一度大力整治采矿业，但废置的矿场又变成了村民的致命陷阱。（毕子默报道）
广东河源市有大量矿产资源，但当地过度采矿造成的严重污染，更引发村民不时与矿主及矿工发生冲突，村民要求农作物损失赔偿及抗议，反被警方武力驱赶，有村民去年被捕仍未获释，村民指控矿主收买地方领导。（毕子默报道）
东江行第五站记者抵达广东惠州，当地工厂林立丶工业污染严重。亚运前，政府强行将一批企业搬迁，实际只是掩耳盗铃，污水却仍旧经支流流向东江。尽管水土备受污染，为了生计，怀着身孕的农民工依旧在污染的环境中打工。（毕子默报道）
廣東當局在惠州橋頭鎮興建的東江抽水工程，將東江水輸入香港。在東深引水工程現場，記者見到的是一大片浩瀚沙海﹐挖沙船正將東江河床和河岸的泥沙挖起﹐江水渾濁。有學者指﹐采沙作業不僅嚴重破壞環境生態，還會導致咸潮進而影響供水系統穩定性。（畢子默報道）
......隨著上世紀九十年代珠三角經濟起飛，石馬河沿岸的工廠和人口急速增長，石馬河水質逐漸發生了變化。當地居民回憶說，一九九五年以後，石馬河變得又黑又臭，村民們都叫它"黑龍江"。
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/multimedia/pollution_dongjiang/special_zoon-0728...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Who will replace World Bank president?
Do you know in theory Asian or Non -USA sponsored person cannot be a President of World Bank.
Emerging market and developing countries have campaigned hard in recent years to break Europe's grip on the top position at the International Monetary Fund and the United States' hold on the presidency of the World Bank.
Officials from large emerging economies like Brazil said on Wednesday the selection process for Zoellick's successor should be based on qualifications and not nationality.
"There is no reason for the president of the World Bank to have a specific nationality," Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega told reporters in Brasilia.
From yahoo news:
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday he will step down in June and Washington pledged to name a replacement candidate within weeks for a job that has always gone to an American.
The Obama administration said it would open the process to competition, marking the first time it has shown willingness to loosen its grip on the world's top development lender.
Zoellick took the reins at the Bank in 2007 after a staff revolt pushed out Paul Wolfowitz, and he moved quickly to return the institution's focus to alleviating poverty.
Developing countries have for years pressed for a greater voice in leading global financial institutions and are likely to stress the importance of a competitive process, but the United States is still widely expected to retain its hold on the job.
(source: yahoo news)
For your information in global politic, there was no democratic right.
There was a informal agreement:
Although the president is formally appointed by the bank's member nations, a decades-old agreement - which also allows major European powers to choose the head of the IMF - gives the United States the role of naming the World Bank chief.
Is it democracy that the western democracy advocate nations practices all this while. How about the chances of Asian, African and South American to hold the post for the world organization? No wonder USA had been manipulated the world financial system all this while in the past.....
There was discrimination in world body, where no open competition for the world financial top post, a monopoly by USA and its European allies, IMF and World Bank....
Where is the human right?.....another hypocrisy of the democracy and human right advocates of western world...
The next President of the world bank is going to be another USA candidate, despite their dismay of the Wall Street, New York and the poor financial performance of USA....is it a fair and equal opportunity in the world body for all? .....can they able to take the world financial body to the next era?....
I was just ponder, and will it be another disaster?....
Emerging market and developing countries have campaigned hard in recent years to break Europe's grip on the top position at the International Monetary Fund and the United States' hold on the presidency of the World Bank.
Officials from large emerging economies like Brazil said on Wednesday the selection process for Zoellick's successor should be based on qualifications and not nationality.
"There is no reason for the president of the World Bank to have a specific nationality," Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega told reporters in Brasilia.
From yahoo news:
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday he will step down in June and Washington pledged to name a replacement candidate within weeks for a job that has always gone to an American.
The Obama administration said it would open the process to competition, marking the first time it has shown willingness to loosen its grip on the world's top development lender.
Zoellick took the reins at the Bank in 2007 after a staff revolt pushed out Paul Wolfowitz, and he moved quickly to return the institution's focus to alleviating poverty.
Developing countries have for years pressed for a greater voice in leading global financial institutions and are likely to stress the importance of a competitive process, but the United States is still widely expected to retain its hold on the job.
(source: yahoo news)
For your information in global politic, there was no democratic right.
There was a informal agreement:
Although the president is formally appointed by the bank's member nations, a decades-old agreement - which also allows major European powers to choose the head of the IMF - gives the United States the role of naming the World Bank chief.
Is it democracy that the western democracy advocate nations practices all this while. How about the chances of Asian, African and South American to hold the post for the world organization? No wonder USA had been manipulated the world financial system all this while in the past.....
There was discrimination in world body, where no open competition for the world financial top post, a monopoly by USA and its European allies, IMF and World Bank....
Where is the human right?.....another hypocrisy of the democracy and human right advocates of western world...
The next President of the world bank is going to be another USA candidate, despite their dismay of the Wall Street, New York and the poor financial performance of USA....is it a fair and equal opportunity in the world body for all? .....can they able to take the world financial body to the next era?....
I was just ponder, and will it be another disaster?....
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