Official Documents
Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project Fourth Semiannual Report to the Board of Directors on Implementation of the Recommendations of the Board Inspection Committee as Adopted on 25 March 2002, ADB, April 2004 (ADB website)
Report and Recommendation on a proposed supplementary loan to the Kingdom of Thailand for the Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project, Asian Development Bank, November, 1998 (ADB website)
Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors on a proposed loan to the Kingdom of Thailand for the Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project, Asian Development Bank, November, 1995 (ADB website) For a further listing of documents see the ADB’s Samut Prakarn Webpage
ADB Inspection Process Documents
For a listing of Samut Prakarn inspection documents see the
ADB Board Inspection Committee’s website
Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project Inspection Request, filed with the ADB on April 5, 2001 (Acrobat pdf 70 KB)
Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project Letter of Complaint to ADB President Chino, November 24, 2000 (Acrobat pdf 70 KB)
Civil Society Analysis
"Zero Tolerance"? Assessing the Asian Development Bank's Efforts to Limit Corruption in its Lending Operations, by Steve Herz, March 2004 (Acrobat pdf 723 KB)
Thai Social Movements and the Anti-ADB Campaign: The Chiang Mai Experience, by Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem, Ph.D., July 2002 (Acrobat pdf 368 KB)
BIC Project Factsheet: The ADB-funded Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project in Thailand, updated July 2002 (Acrobat pdf 257 KB)
Summary of Report of Fact-finding Committee (FC) to the Prime Minister on Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project (SPWMP), prepared and translated by TERRA May 1, 2002
Inspection into Klong Dan project finds ADB has violated its own policies, Press Release from affected community, March 26, 2002 (Acrobat pdf 142 KB)
Correspondence
BIC Letter to Board Inspection Committee chairman regarding Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project: Second Semi-annual Report to the Board of Directors, May 8, 2003
BIC Letter to Board Inspection Committee chairman regarding Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project: First Semi-annual Report to the Board of Directors, October 15, 2002
Letter from the Affected Community to Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Demanding that the Government halt the Samut Prakarn Project, March 28, 2002
Letter from the affected community to ADB president Chino regarding Inspection Panel results, March 26, 2002
Press
Stealing from the Poor, by Murray Hiebert and John McBeth, Far Eastern Economic Review, July 29, 2004 (FEER website)
Thai Project Yields Graft and New Policies, by Christopher Gay, Far Eastern Economic Review, July 29, 2004 (FEER website)
Environment Ministry given Cabinet approval to sue owner of project, The Nation, January 8, 2004
Contractor to be hit with suit, by Anchalee Kongrut, Bangkok Post, January 8, 2004
Klong Dan 'conspiracy', The Nation, January 7, 2004
Klong Dan hurry-up, The Nation, December 31, 2003
Firms' bosses to hear land scam charges, by Anchalee Kongrut, Bangkok Post, August 29, 2003
Police to lay charges against consortium, by Anchalee Kongrut, Bangkok Post, August 28, 2003
Executives to be summoned over Klong Dan land sale, by Sirinart Srisunthorn, The Nation, August 28, 2003
Title deeds to public land will be revoked, by Temsak Traisophon and Anchalee Kongrut, Bangkok Post, August 5, 2003
Making the case for graft at Klong Dan, by Kamol Sukin, The Nation, July 18, 2003
SID fights to keep control of Klong Dan investigation, by Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai, The Nation, July 9, 2003
Pollution dept under fire again, by Anchalee Kongrut and Manop Thip-osod, Bangkok Post, June 20, 2003
Govt ready to return B1.6bn loan, by Yuwadee Tunyasiri, Bangkok Post, June 18, 2003
Move to have private firm study project, Bangkok Post, June 16, 2003
Officials to be sued, by Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai and Piyanart Sivalo, The Nation, June 12, 2003
State could reclaim illegally sold land, by Anchalee Kongrut and Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Bangkok Post, June 12, 2003