Dozens of activists gathered outside the World Bank headquarters yesterday vowing to fight a controversial new bank project on the mainland that they claim would harm minority Tibetans and Mongolians. "We want this project . . . stopped," Bhuchung Tsering, spokesman for the International Campaign for Tibet, told about 60 human rights and environmental activists opposing the planned China Western Poverty Reduction Project. The plan, for which the World Bank proposes lending Beijing US$40 million (HK$309 million), aims to resettle 58,000 people from an overcrowded, eroded area in the northeastern corner of Qinghai province to a sparsely populated area 480km west.