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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to lend up to $100 million to a privately owned gas-fired power plant in Pakistan that will help alleviate chronic power shortages which are undermining growth and poverty reduction.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Asia is benefiting hugely from the many free trade agreements reached over the last decade but the region needs now to consolidate those agreements, says a new book from the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and Asian Development Bank (ADB).

New Delhi: Government has planned to promote Safe and Honourable Tourism. The Tourist Police Organisation (TPO) will be enlarged with the involvement of state governments to ensure the safety of tourists.

New York: The International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Government of Serbia signed an agreement today by which people convicted by the court can serve their sentences in the Eastern European nation.

New York: Soldiers from Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union peacekeeping mission that is trying to stabilize the conflict-wracked country need urgent funding to continue their operations, a senior United Nations envoy warned today.

New York: Restoring political stability and achieving a new Lebanese government is possible if all parties are willing to cooperate towards that end, a top United Nations envoy said today following a meeting with the caretaker Prime Minister, Saad Hariri.

New York: Haiti’s electoral council must take full account of an international mission’s findings, reportedly eliminating the Government candidate from the presidential run-off, or face the prospect of considerable unrest, the United Nations peacekeeping chief warned today.

New York: United Nations de-miners have removed over 27,000 landmines from the buffer zone in Cyprus over the past six years, the UN envoy to the country said today, while announcing that the mine action programme will come to an end next month due to lack of access to remaining minefields.

New York: The year 2010 ranked as the warmest on record – together with 2005 and 1998 – according to the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which added that last year also witnessed a large number of extreme weather events, including the heat wave in Russia and the devastating floods in Pakistan.

New York: Rising opium prices may encourage farmers in Afghanistan to plant more of the narcotic crop, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a survey released today, warning that the higher prices could reverse recent gains in the fight against drug production in the Asian country.