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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $60 million loan to improve water efficiency in three agricultural counties in Qinghai Province in the west of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Just one scoop of water will give you a fulfilling, enjoyable and cleansing shower, says the Indonesian independent filmmaker who has won the grand prize in the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) 'MyView H₂O' video competition.

New Delhi: A three-day international conference on ‘Utilization of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) as a Model for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge’ is slated to be hosted in New Delhi from Tuesday.

New York: Health-care workers in Somalia today began a three-day, United Nations-backed campaign to vaccinate more than 1.8 million young children against polio, four years after the Horn of Africa country was declared to be polio-free.

BEIJING - The People's Republic of China (PRC) should broaden, deepen, and standardize its social security system to address growing income inequalities in the country and set the country on the path to long-term economic growth, Haruhiko Kuroda, President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), said today.

New York: Libya's claim that it will abide by this week's Security Council resolution, which calls for an immediate ceasefire and a halt to all attacks against civilians, still has to be verified, and the regime's current actions are unclear, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.

New York: A day before Haitians head to the polls to vote for a new president, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged them to 'take full advantage of this historic opportunity to shape the future of their country.'

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Velikkakath Sankaran Achuthanandan won’t be denied no matter how hard his rivals within the party try. Velikkakath in Malayalam means inside the fence. Well, at the end of a day of dramatic developments, his rivals learnt to their dismay that it is virtually impossible to fence off VS, who rose, Phoenix-like, from the ashes!

It would be a “tragedy of errors”, to use a Shakespearean metaphor, if India’s nuclear power programme – the only area of advanced science where India is in the forefront world-wide – is slashed in response to the crisis imposed by nature’s fury in Japan. That would be a big blow to Indian economic development, opening power generation to the ravages of crippling environmental pollution from coal-based thermal plants, and still leave a big void in the target that nuclear power generation was expected to provide – a target of 63,000 MWe during the two decades ahead.

New York: The United Nations today welcomed the decision by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to suspend oil exploration in Africa’s oldest national park, home to numerous endangered species, including the mountain gorilla.