Japan will pledge $20 billion in aid to Southeast Asian countries at a 11-nation summit this weekend as it looks to shore-up ties in a region increasingly dominated by China, reports said Friday.
Japan's Mizuho Bank will punish more than 30 executives over revelations that the lender made loans to underworld figures, reports said Friday, in the latest chapter of a headline-grabbing scandal.
Kazakhstan eyes ratifying a loan agreement with the Asian Development Bank to fund repairs of Shymkent-Tashkent section of the Western Europe-Western China international transit corridor.
Recent Northeastern University graduate Greg Dube hopes to launch a bright engineering career soon, but like many young Americans, he is haunted by a looming financial burden: some $150,000 in student loan debt.
Asian Development Bank is loaning Kazakhstan $95 million for reconstruction of a road section and construction of a new section of Western Europe-Western China transport corridor.
Almaty administration and the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) signed a loan agreement worth $39.3 million for procurement of 200 new buses running on gas.