(3 December 2008) - The Pakistan province of Sindh will improve water and sanitation infrastructure in its secondary cities under a $300 million loan to the Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program approved by the Asian Development Bank. Read the full story
(2 December 2008) - Key urban centers in Sri Lanka's Northern and Northwestern Provinces are utilizing Asian Development Bank funds to upgrade neglected and overstretched water and sanitation systems. Read the full story
(2 December 2008) - More than half a million rural households will benefit from an $83 million loan by the Asian Development Bank to improve farming technology and practices, ensuring double-digit income growth in three poor provinces in the People's Republic of China. Read the full story
(28 November 2008) - The Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda today met special envoys of Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso to discuss the impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries in Asia. Read the full story
(28 November 2008) - Electricity will become available to a larger population of Afghanistan under a new Energy Sector Development Investment Program approved by the Asian Development Bank. 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
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