Development

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Government of the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) have signed 3 grant agreements worth $16.8 million to improve...

News Hour: The Chinese authorities are demonstrating new-depths of cruelty by preventing Liu Xiaobo from leaving the country to receive urgent medical treatment for his late-stage liver cancer, Amnesty International said. On Wednesday, the authorities announced...

News Hour: After 42 days without recording a new case of Ebola, Congolese health authorities over the weekend officially declared an end to the latest outbreak of the disease, which killed four people out of eight...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and The University of the South Pacific (USP) have signed a cooperation agreement to boost knowledge collaboration between the two organizations. ADB Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today approved the second phase of financial support amounting to $76 million to address lack of access to affordable, clean, and reliable power in provincial centers in Papua New...

News Hour: Turkey has announced today a $20m donation to back FAO’s work aimed at improving food security, rural development and natural resource management in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The announcement was made at a...

News Hour: Illegal fishing, logging and poaching are impacting two-thirds of the 57 natural World Heritage sites monitored by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) this year, putting some of the world’s most precious...

News Hour: The Government of France has contributed EUR 250,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) so that refugees in Tanzania can receive further cash assistance. Following a previous allocation of funds (EUR 750,000)...

News Hour: The UN Migration Agency (IOM) in Egypt launched its revamped Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) Map on 4 July 2017 to provide policymakers, development partners, civil society, private sector, academia and the donor...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank and the Government of India today signed a $220 million loan for improving connectivity as well as transport efficiency and safety on state highways of Rajasthan. The loan is the...