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More and more people worldwide gain access to safe drinking water.

Good News

Progress in drinking water supply and disease control

The two pieces of good news this month are about more people gaining access to safe drinking water and four countries being declared free of the neglected tropical disease trachoma.

by D+C / E+Z

05.12.2025

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For democracy, curiosity matters more than obedience

by Hans Dembowski

11.05.2016

Local waste pickers collect plastic waste in Mumbai, which will then be recycled.

Recycling

A system for collecting waste

by Oliver Möllenstädt

10.05.2016

Jin Liqun, AIIB president, with his ADB counterpart, Takehiko Nakao.

Asia

Multilateral banks honeymoon

by Hans Dembowski

08.05.2016

In front of the ADB headquarters, Greenpeace protesters expressed discontent with funding for coal-based power infrastructure in 2012.

Social and environmental standards

Let’s race to the top

by Hans Dembowski

07.05.2016

West must uphold civil liberties

by Hans Dembowski

06.05.2016

Digitalisation

Providing and limiting freedom

by Nanjira Sambuli

06.05.2016

Prime Minister Narendra Modi embraced Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in California, but India does not appreciate the corporation Free Basics.

Web services

Free of charge, but limited in scope

by Nanjira Sambuli

05.05.2016

Supporters of the opposition Democratic Alliance party march toward the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg demanding the resignation of President Jacob Zuma on 15 April.

Comment

Robbed of a role model

by Jennifer Dube

04.05.2016

ADB and AIIB share interest in infrastructure

by Hans Dembowski

02.05.2016

Senior citizens

Homes for the elderly

by Humphrey Nkonde

02.05.2016