(29 August 2008) - The Asian Development Bank returned to the US dollar bond market yesterday with a US$1.25 billion 5-year global benchmark bond issue. Read the full story
(29 August 2008) - Japan and the Asian Development Bank are helping Viet Nam improve its water management and modernize its irrigation systems. Read the full story
(29 August 2008) - The Asian Development Bank is providing technical assistance to help the Philippines draw up a program to preserve its watersheds which are threatened by slash-and-burn farming and other harmful land-use practices. Read the full story
(28 August 2008) - Papua New Guinea will draw up a detailed plan to improve power supply in the country where 90% of the population still has no electricity. Read the full story
(27 August 2008) - In a report released today, the Asian Development Bank offers a new way to measure poverty in the Asia and Pacific region. Read the full story
Empowering very poor communities so they can lift themselves out of poverty is finding increasing acceptance in Asia and the Pacific, even among countries with traditionally centralized decision making systems, according to a collection of case studies assembled by the Asian Development Bank. 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
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