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ADB will help improve 1,200 kilometers of roads to boost economic growth in 19 provinces of Viet Nam's central region through a $95 million loan and grant package.

ADB will help stem the spread and effects of HIV/AIDS in small Pacific islands through a new grant of US$8 million.

In the medium term, ADB could commit at least $470 million to support Asia's responses and readiness to fight avian flu, ADB announced today.

ADB has approved a US$1.8 million grant from its Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR), financed by the Government of Japan, to help improve rural roads in Tajikistan and provide jobs to the rural poor.

An avian flu pandemic could halt Asia's growth rate to virtually zero and reduce the global trade of goods and services by 14%, according to new research by ADB.

Asia's long-term objective should be monetary union with a single currency, ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said in a lecture in Manila today.

ADB will help provide safe drinking water to more than 1 million people living around the Tonle Sap river basin in Cambodia, through a grant approved for US$18 million.

A joint team from ADB and World Bank will begin an assessment of the needs and reconstruction costs following the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that devastated parts of Pakistan on October 8.

ADB is planning $58 million in grant projects to help stem the growing avian influenza threat in Asia and the Pacific before it grows into a human pandemic that costs the region millions of lives and tens of billions of dollars.

ADB has approved a US$1 million technical assistance (TA) grant to support the Philippine Government's Health Sector Reform Agenda (HSRA).