{"id":1006615,"date":"2026-05-04T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006615"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:25:04","slug":"adb-to-help-finance-70-bn-worth-of-projects-to-improve-electricity-sharing-internet-access-across-apac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/adb-to-help-finance-70-bn-worth-of-projects-to-improve-electricity-sharing-internet-access-across-apac\/","title":{"rendered":"ADB to help finance $70 bn worth of projects to improve electricity-sharing, internet access across APAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samarkand, Uzbekistan: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will support $70 billion in new energy and digital infrastructure projects aimed at connecting power grids, expanding cross-border electricity transmission, and improving broadband access throughout the Asia-Pacific region by 2035, according to its president, Masato Kanda. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese two initiatives build the systems Asia and the Pacific need to grow, compete, and connect,\u201d Kanda told reporters on Sunday. \u201cBy linking power grids and digital networks across borders, we can lower costs, expand opportunity, and bring reliable power and digital access to hundreds of millions of people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samarkand, Uzbekistan: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will support $70 billion in new energy and digital infrastructure projects aimed at connecting power grids, expanding cross-border electricity transmission, and improving broadband access throughout the Asia-Pacific region by 2035, according to its president, Masato Kanda. \u201cThese two initiatives build the systems Asia and the Pacific need to grow, compete, and connect,\u201d Kanda told reporters on Sunday. \u201cBy linking power grids and digital networks across borders, we can lower costs, expand opportunity, and bring reliable power and digital access to hundreds of millions of people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006630,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006615\/revisions\/1006630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}