JAKARTA — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $300 million loan to construct approximately 72 kilometers of disaster-resilient roads along the southern coast of Java, Indonesia, improving connectivity...

LONDON  — Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masato Kanda joined His Majesty King Charles III and fellow leaders at a high-level roundtable at St. James’s Palace to accelerate private capital...

COLOMBO — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $100 million policy-based loan to further support Sri Lanka in strengthening its power sector. This financing builds on earlier initiatives...

Kuala Lumpur, 4 November 2025 – Microsoft is sharing new details about its upcoming cloud region in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, known as Southeast Asia 3. This strategic investment is aimed...

Professor Paul Behrens, from the Oxford Martin School, was one of nine experts invited to deliver evidence at the UK’s first-ever National Emergency Briefing on the climate and nature crises, held last week. Before...

Researchers at the University of Oxford and their collaborators have demonstrated that simple, rapid, and inexpensive tests can detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups - contaminants that have tragically led to...

WASHINGTON  – Economic growth across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is gaining momentum in 2025, supported by structural reforms and rapid digital innovation. According to the latest edition of the...

President Donald Trump’s name has been affixed to the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C., nearly nine months after his Department of Government Efficiency seized the nonprofit...

Around 200,000 more children will likely die before their fifth birthday this year than in 2024 as international aid cuts undermine decades of progress, the Gates Foundation said on Thursday....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a copy of the Gita in Russian to Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday upon his arrival in New Delhi. In a social media post, Mr...