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15 November 2007
Spain and ADB Help Prepare Development Plan for Viet Nam's Thanh Hoa Province
The government of Spain and Asian Development Bank (ADB) are assisting Viet Nam in preparing a master plan for the development of Thanh Hoa Province, the most populous region in the country.
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2 November 2007
$100M ADB Loan to Address Urban Sector Problems in PRC's Jilin Province
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending financial assistance to address urban environmental concerns besetting Jilin province in the Northeast region of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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3 October 2007
ADB Hails Progress in Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Two Years after Pakistan Earthquake
A construction boom is underway in earthquake-hit areas of northern Pakistan as the second anniversary of the 2005 disaster approaches, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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7 August 2007
Asia Faces Huge Environmental Clean-Up Due to Inadequate Sanitation
Many Asian countries face huge financial costs to clean up the environment because of a lack of investment in sanitation – which is leading to massive pollution of both surface and groundwater, a senior official of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said
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31 May 2007
ADB Backs Urban Infrastructure Development in India's Jammu and Kashmir State with $300M Facility
ADB is supporting an investment program requested by the Government of India to help improve the delivery of basic services in the state of Jammu and Kashmir to help sustain economic growth in the region through better urban infrastructure services and ma
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30 April 2007
ADB Supporting Environmental Improvement in PRC's Hefei Municipality
ADB is supporting work that will improve the lives of millions of people in Hefei municipality, capital of Anhui province of the People's Republic of China, by providing a $150 million loan for efficient wastewater management, flood control and transport
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13 March 2007
ADB and Singapore Working Together to Address Asia's Urban Crisis
In Asia, as much as 60 percent of the urban population lives in sprawling slums and squatter settlements. At least half the people in major cities live without adequate supplies of clean water or access to sewage connections.
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12 March 2007
Mongolia's Urban Poor to Take Charge of Own Development
Residents of Mongolia's poor urban areas will be assisted with prioritizing their development needs, making decisions on how resources are to be used, and managing and monitoring assistance being offered to their communities.
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13 February 2007
ADB, UN-HABITAT Doubles Grant Levels to Raise Water Investments for Urban Poor
ADB will continue its partnership with UN-HABITAT that began in 2003 to increase investments in safe drinking water and sanitation facilities for some of Asia's poorest urban areas.
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6 February 2007
ADB and Germany Launch Initiative to Address Asia's Urban Challenges
ADB and the German Government today launched a joint initiative that will help improve the lives of up to 200 million people in Asia's growing cities.
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5 February 2007
Asian Urbanization Global Priority, ADB Vice President Tells Manila Conference
Asian urbanization is a global problem that should be at the forefront of donors' agendas, an ADB Vice-President told the opening of a conference today.
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5 January 2007
ADB Funding Study of Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia
ADB is beginning a set of field studies of select cities around Asia to help develop blueprints for sustainable urban transport systems in the region.
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5 January 2007
ADB to Receive Funds from Cities Alliance for Urban Poor
ADB has signed a Memorandum with the Cities Alliance (CA) to regulate the flow of CA's grant funds to ADB.
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