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Samsung SDI Co Ltd has broken ground on a new 1.7 trillion won ($1.3 billion) battery factory in Malaysia to make cylindrical batteries, the company said on Thursday. The battery maker said it would invest the 1.7 trillion won in stages in the factory in the region of Seremban until …

Tesla reported solid quarterly earnings Wednesday despite a hit from Covid-19 lockdowns in Shanghai that Chief Executive Elon Musk said prompted the company to liquidate most of its bitcoin holdings. Musk, who has generated recent headlines over his controversial withdrawal from a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, said the company …

The United States on Wednesday promised to send more precision rocket systems to Kyiv, soon after Moscow signaled it was aiming to seize more Ukrainian territory beyond the eastern industrial region of Donbas. The announcement came as the European Commission called on EU members to slash demand for natural gas …

U.S. President Joe Biden plans to speak with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, by the end of the month at a moment of simmering tensions between the countries over Taiwan and trade. “I think I’ll be talking to President Xi within the next 10 days,” Biden told reporters as he …

Almost 120 families in central Vietnam have been living in makeshift houses on other people’s land two years since flash floods swept their houses away. On a rainy day in mid-July, Dinh Van Tuong, 42, came to check the wood he had hoarded since late 2020 to make sure it …

Airlines have stopped charging customers for “quick check-in” services starting Wednesday per an order by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV). Dinh Viet Son, deputy head of the CAAV, said while the law doesn’t ban businesses from providing services to prioritize certain customers, but the extra fees for quick …

More than 251,000 children missed out on one or more doses of vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP) in Vietnam last year. The figure is almost a fourfold increase compared to 63,001 in 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said in …

Almost half of Britons are changing what they buy to feed their families as they try to navigate a worsening cost-of-living crisis, according to survey data published on Wednesday. The research from food assurance scheme Red Tractor and polling firm YouGov found that 46 percent of people are changing their …

The HCMC Department of Planning and Architecture has suggested building a public square in front of Ben Thanh Market once the metro construction site there is cleared. It will have a park where the statues of Quach Thi Trang, a student who died in a protest against the Saigon regime …

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to move ahead with a slimmed-down version of legislation to provide billions of dollars in subsidies and tax credits for the semiconductor industry, hoping to ease a shortage that has disrupted production in industries from automobiles to electronics and high-tech weapons. The Senate backed …