News Releases

More public buses with lower greenhouse gas emissions will soon be deployed on the roads of major cities in the People’s Republic of China as ADB helps bus operators shift their fleets to cleaner fuel.

ADB is providing $300 million towards a groundbreaking project that will replace 100,000 gasoline-burning tricycles in the Philippines with clean, energy efficient electric tricycles, or E-Trikes.

ADB will provide $300 million to overhaul more than 900 kilometers of roads in India’s Chhattisgarh state, bringing better access to markets, businesses, social services and education for rural residents.

Ministers from the Greater Mekong Subregion will review progress on the Regional Investment Framework to boost implementation of the GMS Strategic Framework 2012-22, as they meet today and tomorrow for the 18th GMS Ministerial Conference in Nanning, People’s Republic of China.

ADB will provide a $150 million loan to improve the waterway transport system in Hunan province, in the People’s Republic of China, by making the Xiang River more navigable for larger vessels, improving cargo terminals along the river, and providing landing berths for rural communities.

ADB is providing $198 million, with an additional $60 million from partner organizations, to fund a partial upgrade of one of Bangladesh’s most critical regional transport corridors together with two land ports, giving a shot in the arm to connectivity and trade across South Asia.

ADB is supporting Indonesia’s long-term economic master plan by helping to improve domestic and international connectivity. Through a $300 million program loan, ADB is partnering with the government to reduce infrastructure gaps and strengthen links to poor, rural areas, which will pave the way to more sustainable and inclusive growth.

Asia must scale up sustainable transport development or face a bleak future of congested roads, pollution, ill health and economic damage, which could have ripple effects around the world, a high level transport forum in Manila heard.

ADB and the Government of Japan today formally launched a bicycle-sharing scheme which will be tested in three cities for possible replication across developing Asia and the Pacific.

Ministers of the 10 Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program nations have agreed on a plan to implement more than $23 billion in new regional transport infrastructure projects, together with energy and trade initiatives, aimed at creating seamless connectivity and greater prosperity in the region.