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    <title>BIC Updates: Phulbari Coal Project</title>
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    <description>The latest news on the Phulbari Coal Project from the Bank Information Center</description>
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      <title>ADB pulls out of controversial coal project in Bangladesh</title>
      <description>The Director of the Asian Development Bank’s Private Sector Operations Department, Robert Bestani, notified the Bank’s Board of Directors last week that it will take the Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh out of the Bank’s funding pipeline.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:29:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Phulbari resistance documentary</title>
      <description>Phulbari resistance groups produce first documentary video.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3647.aspx</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:09:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ADB faces boycott of its "safeguards" policy consultations</title>
      <description>Civil society groups from South Asia are planning to boycott the Asian Development Bank's consultation meeting on its safeguards policy update, to be held in New Delhi, India tomorrow. The groups, from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh state that the ADB's consultation draft, released in October 2007, greatly dilutes the Bank's earlier policies on Environment (2002), Involuntary Resettlement (1995) and Indigenous Peoples (1998), and is opposed to indigenous peoples’ rights and subverts environmental considerations.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:04:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>NGOs call on ADB to abandon controversial coal project in Bangladesh</title>
      <description>Citing violations of five of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) own policies, non-governmental organizations from around the world have petitioned the ADB to discontinue its pre-appraisal of the Phulbari Coal Project and remove it from the funding pipeline.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:04:37 GMT</pubDate>
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