News Releases

14 Oct 2010

ADB to Help Asia Unleash Solar Power Potential

ADB is to help Asia and the Pacific develop the know-how and capabilities to make solar energy a future large-scale power source.
14 Oct 2010

Lose Less, Reuse More, Is Key to Solving Asia's Water Crisis - ADB Conference

If Asia's fast growing cities have to drive its fabled economic growth, they must curb water losses drastically, and adopt best-in-class water treatment and distribution systems, say new studies released at a conference here today.
13 Oct 2010

Asia Needs to Produce More Food with Less Water - ADB Conference

Asia's ageing irrigation systems must be revitalized to produce more crops with less water in the face of the region's surging demand for food, a rising population, and stressed water resources, say new studies released at a conference here today.
12 Oct 2010

ADB Reviews Plans for More Efficient Use of Asia's Dwindling Freshwater Supplies

ADB has developed a draft framework for its water operations that calls for sweeping efficiency improvements and greater public-private sector partnerships to address the water crisis in Asia and the Pacific.
11 Oct 2010

ADB Conference to Address Asia's Water Crisis

Finding solutions to Asia's water crisis will be the focus of an international water conference in Manila starting today.
7 Oct 2010

ADB Launches Second Asia-Pacific Video Contest

ADB is launching its second video competition which is open to all aspiring filmmakers across the globe.
28 Sep 2010

Asia Must Look Beyond the Recovery and Focus on Long-Run Growth, Says ADB

As developing Asia's recovery from the global crisis gains firm hold, medium- and long-run growth will re-assert itself as the region's top economic priority. The central challenge now facing the region is to transform its V-shaped recovery into sustained growth beyond the recovery.
23 Sep 2010

ADB, FAO, and IFAD Partner to Address Food Security Concerns in Asia and Pacific Region

ADB, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the International Fund for Agriculture Development have joined forces to tackle widespread hunger and build food security throughout the Asia and Pacific region.
14 Sep 2010

ADB, Japan Fund Social Support Schemes in Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Tonga

ADB and the Government of Japan are extending grants totaling $3 million for a cash-for-work scheme and other pilot social support programs for vulnerable groups in the Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, and Tonga.
2 Aug 2010

Modest Growth Expected for Pacific Economies in 2011, Says ADB

Stronger than expected economic growth in resource rich Timor-Leste has resulted in an upgrade of ADB's forecast of economic growth in the Pacific region, according to the latest edition of ADB's Pacific Economic Monitor.