ADB says $66bn to be invested in Greater Mekong Sub-region

The Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) is expected to receive $66 billion in investment to strengthen regional economic cooperation in the next five years - with $7 billion mobilised from the Asian Development Bank. It represents a $2 billion rise on what ministers of the six GMS countries - Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and China - agreed in the action plan framework for 2018-2022 late last year.