(26 June 2008) - The Asian Development Bank will provide Viet Nam with a $196 million loan to construct a hydroelectric facility that will help ease growing power shortages that threaten the country's future economic growth. Read the full story
(26 June 2008) - Australia and the Asian Development Bank are expanding efforts to combat the spread of HIV in the Greater Mekong Subregion through prevention programs integrated into infrastructure development projects, particularly road construction. Read the full story
(26 June 2008) - Twelve organizations from across the Asia-Pacific region today launched a network to share solutions for improving water management to tackle the region's many pressing water challenges. Read the full story
(25 June 2008) - With Asian cities growing by over 100,000 people a day, a major rethink is needed on how cities manage growth because the current approach is no longer economically, environmentally or socially sustainable, the Asian Development Bank said at the World Cities Summit. Read the full story
When Vang Thi Bich and her family were relocated to the Huoi Long resettlement site in Lai Chau province in Viet Nam in 2005 to make way for the Son La hydropower project, much of their way of life changed. Read the full story
In late 1999, the Asian Development Bank and the People's Republic of China embarked on a massive $183 million program to improve the environment in three highly polluted cities in the nation's leading coal-producing province of Shanxi. Read the full story
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