Development
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New ADB Australia regional director focused on development effectiveness
Jun 20, 2016News Hour: Emma Xiaoqin Fan, who assumed office today as the new Regional Director of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB’s) Pacific Liaison and Coordination Office (PLCO) in Sydney, Australia, said she values the opportunity to enhance... -
World Bank signs $130 million loan with Bangladesh for developing Economic Zones
Jun 20, 2016News Hour: The government of Bangladesh signed a $130 million additional financing agreement with the World Bank to scale up support for the recently licensed and new economic zones to attract foreign and domestic investment as... -
Flash floods and landslides in central Indonesia killed at least 35 people
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: Flash floods and landslides in central Indonesia have killed at least 35 people and destroyed dozens of homes, an official said Sunday, as searchers scoured devastated villages for survivors, reports BSS. Dozens were also... -
Stanford researchers discovered new way of creating hydrogen fuel
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: A Stanford University research lab has developed new technologies to tackle two of the world’s biggest energy challenges – clean fuel for transportation and grid-scale energy storage, Mark Shwartz said in there website. The... -
IMF MD Christine Lagarde give statement about her Visit to Austria
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), made the following statement in Vienna, “It is a great pleasure to be in Austria, my first visit as the Managing Director of... -
TI expands Caribbean Network to strengthen the fight against corruption
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: Transparency International chapters in the Caribbean plan to work together to share their expertise and experience across the region and form the Transparency International Caribbean Network. This network will bring together Transparency International chapters... -
Dead bodies found on the sahara migration route
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: Save the Children said, “Reports that 34 people, 20 of them children, have been found dead in the Sahara desert, is yet another tragic example of lives lost along the refugee and migrant route.”... -
Niger deaths add to growing toll of migrant fatalities within Africa
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: IOM notes the shocking discovery this week of the remains of 34 migrants near the Algeria-Niger border which brings to 471 the number of deaths and disappearances recorded on the African continent this year... -
IOM facilitates voluntary repatriation of Nigerian migrants held in Libyan prisons
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: IOM Libya yesterday (16/6) assisted 162 stranded Nigerians migrants, including 28 women and 3 children, to return home to Nigeria from Libya. Of the group, 146 had spent months in immigration detention centres, namely... -
IOM provides essential household items for 22,500 in Nigeria’s Borno State
Jun 19, 2016News Hour: IOM in Nigeria has provided essential household items, which include blankets, mats, soap, buckets, basins, plates, cups and cooking pots to about 22,500 people (an estimated 3,000 households) in the recently accessible town of...
