ADB will double its investment in the rehabilitation of Cambodia's dilapidated railway, a move that will position the country at the center of a growing trade network in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Cambodia will target sweeping new measures to boost incomes and livelihood opportunities for thousands of poor households in the Tonle Sap Basin region, in a bid to broaden the country's economic base and address growing income disparities between urban and rural areas.

Tonga will get support from ADB to preserve key social sector spending programs that have come under pressure as a result of the global economic crisis.

Years of underinvestment in electricity infrastructure has left Nepal with one of the most unreliable power supplies in South Asia, putting a brake on the country's economic growth.

Viet Nam is planning a major overhaul of its secondary education system to reflect the changing needs of the labor market and to keep its economy competitive and robust.

Papua New Guinea is targeting sweeping improvements to its national airports under a $640 million plan to strengthen safety and services, and to open up new economic opportunities for the resource-rich Pacific country.

Rising demand for skilled labor and inadequate investment in vocational training has created a shortage of skilled workers in Cambodia, impacting on productivity and economic growth.