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ADB is promoting the long-term development of Pakistan's national highway network and improved regional connections through an assistance package comprising a financing facility of up to US$770 million and a $3 million loan.

Two ADB loans totaling US$60 million will help improve the urban environment for about 1.4 million people living in the city of Rawalpindi in Punjab, Pakistan.

ADB is providing a US$205 million loan and grant package to help increase access to quality social services in Balochistan, Pakistan.

ADB has approved a US$50 million loan to help improve urban infrastructure facilities and basic urban services in at least 68 towns in Sri Lanka.

ADB has approved a US$15 million loan to help boost the Government of Viet Nam?s efforts in reducing poverty.

ADB will help enhance the livelihood of the rural population in the southwest areas of Bangladesh through a US$20 million loan approved to help improve weak flood control and drainage/irrigation (FCD/I) schemes.

ADB, in partnership with the World Health Organization, will help three Mekong countries contain the spread of emerging diseases, including avian influenza, at the local level, improve care of communicable diseases among vulnerable populations, and strengthen regional coordination.

ADB will substantially increase its support for regional cooperation in Central Asia over the next three years.

ADB will help develop more highly skilled workers in Sri Lanka through a new US$20 million loan to improve technical education and vocational training (TEVT) in the country.

ADB will help boost regional trade and cooperation in Central Asia through a US$29.5 million loan that will help rehabilitate a critical part of the road linking Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, to the Kyrgyz Republic.

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 has approved a US$15.5 million grant for a project that will help deliver better education to children in poor areas and from disadvantaged families in the Kyrgyz Republic.

In a landmark harmonization initiative, ADB released today a Country Strategy and Program (CSP) for 2006-2010 devised with its development partners to support the Bangladesh Government in its aim of halving poverty and improving human development.

ADB will help expand the natural gas infrastructure and delivery system in Bangladesh to support the country's economic growth through a US$230 million loan package approved today.

ADB will support the Mongolian Government in promoting higher private sector-led growth and inclusive social development, in a new Country Strategy and Program (CSP) for 2006-2008.