Development

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will open an office in Singapore to support the expansion of its private sector operations. An agreement establishing the new office was signed today on the sidelines of the G20 Summit...

Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Mr. Takehiko Nakao today met with Viet Nam Prime Minister Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Osaka. They discussed Viet Nam’s macroeconomic performance and...

Thousands marched through Madrid on Saturday to ask the Spanish capital’s new mayor not to ditch ambitious traffic restrictions in the center only recently set up to improve air quality. “Madrid Central,” as it is called,...

The corpses of a Salvadoran dad and his 23-month-old child, whose figures resting face down in the Rio Grande turned representations of the perils of illegal immigration to the United States, were delivered to their birthplace...

Temperatures in France are expected to reach a record-breaking high on Friday, as Europe continues to endure a sweltering heatwave which sparked an out-of-control wildfire in Spain. Governments warned citizens to take extra precautions, with the...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have launched their annual joint report on returns to Afghanistan from Pakistan and Iran for 2018. It can be downloaded here:...

We live in a world where every day 830 women die while giving birth to her child from causes that are easily preventable. But it can also be scary when a mother doesn’t know what to...

A Spanish forest fire raged out of control Thursday amid a European heatwave, devouring land as hundreds of firefighters battled through the night, local authorities said. The blaze broke out Wednesday afternoon in Torre del Espanol...

G20 host Japan hopes world leaders will endorse a deal on marine plastic waste and find common ground on climate change, but its own environmental record is under increasing scrutiny. Activists say Japan has fallen behind...

SERAC-Bangladesh formed a group of 40 youths to initiate a long term divisional advocacy in Dhaka on Sunday at Biswa Sahitya Kendra, with the support from RHRN Bangladesh platform. The goal of the meeting was to...