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The world’s largest privately owned companies are severely lagging their public market peers when it comes to setting climate targets, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Net Zero Tracker released on Wednesday. Just 32 of the 100 biggest private firms have set a target to reach net-zero carbon emissions, …

North Korea fired artillery shells off its east and west coasts late on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, after Seoul kicked off annual defence drills aimed at boosting its ability to respond to the North’s nuclear and missile threats. The North fired some 100 shells into the sea off its …

U.S. President Joe Biden will announce a plan on Wednesday to sell off the last portion of his release from the nation’s emergency oil reserve by year’s end, and detail a strategy to refill the stockpile when prices drop, a senior administration official said. The plan is intended to add …

Netflix Inc reversed customer losses that had hammered its stock this year and projected more growth ahead, reassuring Wall Street as it prepares to offer a new streaming option with advertising. Shares of Netflix jumped 14% in after-hours trading, boosted in part by the streaming giant’s forecast that it would …

Storm Nesat was packing 117 kph winds to the north of the Paracel Islands at 4 a.m. Wednesday and is forecast to keep weakening as it gets closer to central Vietnam. The National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting said the storm will move southwest at 10-15 kph on Wednesday. It will …

Ho Chi Minh City will make Can Gio District a beach town that provides eco-tourism services by 2030. The only seaside district of HCMC, Can Gio will be shaped into a national key tourist area, with the service sector making up 75% of its total production value by 2030, according …

Vietnam has called for all stakeholders to keep their composure, maintain dialogue and avoid conflict escalation on the Korean Peninsula. At a meeting in Hanoi with visiting South Korean counterpart Park Jin, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son said Vietnam was always attentive to the situation on the Korean Peninsula. …

Nine Chinese who were rescued by Vietnamese fishermen while drifting at sea in September were handed over to China Tuesday. The Chinese citizens boarded a China Southern flight from the Phu Quoc International Airport in the Mekong Delta’s Kien Giang Province at 11:45 a.m. Late last month, Pham Xuan Hoang, …

HCMC – Long Thanh – Dau Giay Expressway linking the city with its neighbor Dong Nai Province should be extended to eight or 10 lanes with VND14.8 trillion ($605.6 million). Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC), which manages the expressway, has proposed to the Ministry of Transport that a 21.9-kilometer section of …

A man in northern Vietnam had his truck seized and was fined VND20 million ($819.25) for obstructing an ambulance en route to hospital for over four kilometers. At 5:30 p.m. Monday, an ambulance of northern Vietnam’s Tuyen Quang Province general hospital was transporting a patient suffering from a ruptured liver …