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ADB Conference to Address Asia's Water Crisis
Finding solutions to Asia's water crisis will be the focus of an international water conference in Manila starting today.
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ADB Launches Second Asia-Pacific Video Contest
ADB is launching its second video competition which is open to all aspiring filmmakers across the globe.
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Asia Must Look Beyond the Recovery and Focus on Long-Run Growth, Says ADB
As developing Asia's recovery from the global crisis gains firm hold, medium- and long-run growth will re-assert itself as the region's top economic priority. The central challenge now facing the region is to transform its V-shaped recovery into sustained growth beyond the recovery.
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Asia Represents the World's Best Hope for Achieving MDGs, ADB President Tells UN
ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said today that Asia and the Pacific, home to three-fifths of humanity and two-thirds of the world's poor, represented the world's best hope for achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
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Mekong Nations Gather to Chart Regional Cooperation for Next Decade
Ministers from the six countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion are holding a 16th Ministerial Meeting in Ha Noi, Viet Nam on 20 August 2010 to discuss a new 10-year framework for regional cooperation.
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ADB to Invest in Greater Mekong Subregion, Clean Energy Fund
ADB will invest $15 million to support clean energy projects in the Greater Mekong Subregion and South Asia through the Mekong Brahmaputra Clean Development Fund.
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Inclusive Growth Key to Merging Two Faces of Asia - ADB
Rising inequalities in income and access to employment and social services in Asia are casting a shadow over its unprecedented economic boom, and governments and the private sector need to work together to make the benefits of growth more inclusive, says a new book from ADB.
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Old Southeast Asia Combat Zone Gives Way to Burgeoning Trade Corridor
Commercial trucks from Thailand and Viet Nam are able to enter each others' territory for the first time to deliver and pick up goods following today's formal exchange of traffic rights and introduction of a regional customs transit system among the two countries and Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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ADB, Islamic Development Bank to Set Up Shari'ah-Compliant Infrastructure Fund
ADB and the Islamic Development Bank today agreed to set up Asia's first major multi-country Islamic infrastructure fund.
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ADB Targets Coordinated Water Management in Central Asian Nations
The Asian Development Bank is aiming to enhance regional cooperation on vital Central Asian waterways whose management and protection are crucial to the region's economic growth and social well-being.
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ADB to Help Lay Groundwork for Mekong Water, Sanitation Project
The Asian Development Bank is laying the groundwork for a water and sanitation project that will help improve the health and lives of about 200,000 people living in nine towns in Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Viet Nam.
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Asian Development Bank and Islamic Development Bank Sign Landmark $4 Billion Cofinancing Agreement
The Asian Development Bank and the Islamic Development Bank signed today a landmark cofinancing agreement, which will allow them to work together on projects in common member countries.
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ADB Grants $80M Loan to Ensure Safe, Secure Water Supply for PRC's Kunming City
The Asian Development Bank is extending an $80 million loan to ensure a safe, secure and affordable water supply to the capital city of Kunming in Yunnan province in southwestern People's Republic of China.
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Millennium Development Goals Regional Progress Report to Be Launched at Poverty Forum in Manila
The annual update on the progress of Millennium Development Goals in the Asia and Pacific region will be unveiled on 8 October.
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Asia-Pacific Countries Strengthen Cooperation in Fight against Corruption to Bring the Corrupt to Justice
The 27 member economies of ADB/Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific agreed to boost their cooperation in bringing the corrupt to justice.
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Many Asian Countries Falling Short of MDG Targets, Joint Report Says
The Asian and Pacific region as a whole is on track to achieve most of the Millennium Development Goals, but progress in many individual countries is slow and performance on some vital targets is unsatisfactory, according to a new report released today.
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ADB, Netherlands Formalize $14 million Grant for Mekong Environment Program
ADB and the Government of Netherlands today exchanged documents formalizing the $14 million Dutch financial support to the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Environment Program, and its flagship component, the Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative.
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Thailand and ADB Seek Regional Cooperation in Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Terrorist Financing Efforts
A two-day conference on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorist-Financing in the Mekong region opened today in Bangkok.
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ADB to Highlight US$15 Billion Worth of Infrastructure Projects in the Greater Mekong Subregion to Singapore Companies
Singapore companies will have a rare opportunity to explore the pool of projects supported by the Asian Development Bank in the energy, transport logistics and urban infrastructure sectors, in the Greater Mekong Subregion at the Mekong Development Forum to be held this Wednesday, 8 March.
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Partnerships Vital to Ensuring Region's Sustainable Development, Delhi Summit Told
Partnerships and cooperation among local communities as well as communities of nations must be strengthened if Asia and the Pacific is to achieve sustainable development, a senior ADB official told an environment summit in New Delhi today.