MANILA - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today approved a $58.6 million grant from the Asian Development Fund (ADF) and a $28.1 million concessional loan to provide basic infrastructure and critical ...

The world’s most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are ...

The Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford recently published the World Happiness Report 2025. Finland took ...

Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than ...

Officials in Myanmar have destroyed nearly $300 million worth of illegal drugs with massive drug-burning ceremonies taking ...

ADB President Masato Kanda said the $100 million in relief aid – the ADB’s largest single grant to Myanmar, “will deliver ...

Myanmar’s budget deficit is seen widening to 6.9% by the end of March next year, up from 5.1% a year earlier with much of the deficit funding coming from the central bank, the report said.

The United Nations Special Envoy for Myanmar, Julie Bishop, has warned the General Assembly that Myanmar is on the “path to self-destruction” as the country grapples with the aftermath of the March 28 ...

The poverty rate may climb 2.8 percentage points from an already high ratio of 31% last year, according to the World Bank. Myanmar’s budget deficit is seen widening to 6.9% by the end of March ...

According to Myanmar’s ruling junta, the death toll has topped 3,700. World Bank division director for Thailand and Myanmar Melinda Good said in a statement: “The earthquake caused significant ...

Myanmar's economy is set to shrink 2.5 percent in the 2025/26 financial year, largely as a result of March's devastating magnitude-7.7 earthquake, the World Bank said on Thursday. A World Bank report ...

Myanmar’s economy is headed for its worst performance since the pandemic as the strife-torn country reels from the impact of a devastating earthquake in March that’s estimated to have caused ...