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25 Sep 2013

ADB $220 Million Loan to Help Uzbekistan Reduce Poverty and Boost Agriculture

ADB will help overhaul a 45-year-old, inefficient water supply system in Bukhara and Navoi provinces in Uzbekistan, that will secure reliable irrigation to 6,500 farms and provide drinking water access to 725,000 consumers.

26 Aug 2013

ADB, Cambodia Sign $70 Million Loan for Rice Commercialization, Finance Reforms

The Government of Cambodia and ADB today signed loan agreements worth $70 million to expand the country’s rice sector and promote reforms in the finance sector.

21 Aug 2013

High Speed Broadband Goes Live in Tonga

ADB, Tonga Cable Corporation (TCC), and World Bank Group joined the Government of Tonga at a ceremony today to celebrate the arrival of high speed internet in Tonga.

21 Aug 2013

ADB, Government Sign $200 Million Loan to Help Schools Build Skills for Jobs

ADB's Sri Lanka Country Director, Rita O'Sullivan, and Secretary to the Treasury and Alternate Governor for Sri Lanka in ADB, P. B. Jayasundera, have signed an agreement for a $200 million loan to help the Government of Sri Lanka revamp its secondary school system to cut youth unemployment and meet the country's urgent need for a skilled workforce.

16 Aug 2013

ADB & New Zealand Help Vanuatu Improve Ports And Expand Interisland Shipping

ADB and the New Zealand Government today joined the Government of Vanuatu to officially launch the Vanuatu Interisland Shipping Support Project which will improve domestic port facilities and expand shipping services to remote islands.

5 Aug 2013

ADB, Australia, Korea To Support New Transport Link in Mekong Delta

ADB will lend $410 million to Viet Nam to build sections of a second arterial highway connecting Ho Chi Minh City to the Mekong Delta and southern coastal regions.

31 Jul 2013

ADB to Help Ensure Year-Round Travel on Nepal's Busiest Highway

ADB is to help upgrade key sections of Nepal’s East West Highway to allow year-round travel along the country’s main transport route.

2 Jul 2013

ADB, Australia Fund Solar Systems to Help Tonga Cut Fuel Bill, Power Costs

ADB and Australia are to fund the construction and installation of solar power systems on nine outer islands to provide a clean, affordable supply of electricity and to help trim the country’s costly imported fuel bill.

28 Jun 2013

ADB Loan to Help Sri Lanka Upgrade Secondary Schools to Meet Labor Needs

ADB has approved $200 million in loans to help the Government of Sri Lanka revamp its secondary school system to cut youth unemployment and meet  the country’s urgent need for a skilled workforce. 

21 Jun 2013

ADB Wind, Solar Power Project to Help Yap Cut Costly Fuel Imports

ADB is to fund wind and solar power facilities on Yap to slash fuel imports and strengthen energy security in the sparsely populated remote island group of the Federated States of Micronesia.

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