The growing number of conflicts in 2025 is having serious effects on the global economy, primarily through energy and food ...

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 ...

China is securing loans to low-income and developing nations with commodity revenue streams and cash held in restricted ...

Global growth is projected to slow to 2.3 percent in 2025, nearly half a percentage point lower than the rate that had been ...

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 ...

The World Bank was among the first development partners to support Bangladesh following its independence. Since then, the World Bank has committed more than $45 billion in grants, interest-free and ...

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 ...