Announcements

The 149th GRIPS Forum “Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS): A New Way of Cooperation and its Contributors” will open on January 22, 2018 in Tokyo.Mr. Noritada Morita, Former Director-General of Asian Development Bank, is speaker of the forum. Registration for the forum is available by 17:00 on 21 ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on January 8 launched a photo contest on Instagram to showcase the development progress in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and demonstrate how a focus on increased regional cooperation and integration can improve people’s lives.The online photo contest, which will be ...

ADB’s Trade Finance Program (TFP) will have its first Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Financial Sector and Trade Finance Conference on 18-19 January 2018 at Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.Delegates from ADB member countries of Cambodia, People’s Republic of China, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, ...

Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Working Group on Health Cooperation will convene its first meeting in Luang Prabang, Lao on December 13-14.For more information, please visit here ...

Greater Mekong Subregion Working Group will hold a meeting on “Connecting the Railways in the Greater Mekong Subregion” project on November 28, 2017 in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi.The project aims to realize a regional rail network, completion of the missing rail links is the ...

The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a $70 million loan to help provide a more efficient, safe, and disaster resilient transport sector in Cambodia, particularly by improving national roads in the provinces of Prey Veng, Siem Reap, and Svay Rieng along ...

Open-access journal Water is calling for papers and contributions for an upcoming special issue covering the Water-Energy-Food nexus in the Greater Mekong Subregion. See below for the call in full, or over at their site.—Dear Colleagues,The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is a prime exemplar of the ...