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| Twenty-two people are killed and more than 100 injured when a bomb ripps through the local offices of the country's ruling Awami League in Narayanganj.
The government has blamed the bomb, the latest in a series to rock the South Asian ... |
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| TOKYO |
The World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Japanese government said Monday they would tighten their ties to fight poverty, especially in Asia.
"We still have so much to do," Shoji Nishimoto, ADB director of ... |
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| MANILA |
Widespread environmental degradation in the Asia Pacific could hamper economic growth necessary to combat massive poverty in the region, an Asian Development Bank study released Monday said.
According to the ADB's Asian Environment Outlook (AEO), rapid development in Asia over the last few years was accompanied by "a high environmental cost" leading to deforestation and a loss of 90 percent of the region's original wildlife habitat.
It projected that by the year 2020, over half of Asians would live in cities with the total urban population ... |
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| SHIBCHAR, Bangladesh |
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, whose five-year term ends next month, Saturday said if she was voted back to power Bangladesh's development would continue.
"If you vote the Awami League back to power the spree of development ... |
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