Developing and reforming online/electronic business registries in the Pacific Islands is essential if the region wants to build a vibrant, efficient private sector, delegates said at a workshop jointly organized by ADB and the New Zealand Companies Office.

由于2012年接到的投诉创年度新高，亚洲开发银行（亚行）加大了抵制欺诈和腐败措施的力度。

Creating more and better jobs in industries driving growth in the Philippines is the focus of two technical assistance grants worth more than $12.7 million that will fund a pilot youth job placement program and improve skills in the tourism sector.

Developing Asia has become increasingly integrated over the past decade, led by growing trade and tourism and, most recently, as the region faced down the global financial crisis and subsequent eurozone crisis, according to a new integration index published in ADB's latest Asian Economic Integration Monitor.