Bloomberg Vietnam Airlines Corp., which sold shares in an initial public offering 17 months ago, expects to get them listed “some time later this year” after closing a deal with ANA Holdings Inc., Chief Executive Officer Pham Ngoc Minh said. The shares of the state-owned carrier may start trading on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, Minh said ...

  Punta Gorda, United States / AFP With deep pockets and an environmentalist’s zeal, retired American football player Syd Kitson dreamed up a plan to build the United States’ first solar-powered town on a vast swath of rural land in southwest Florida. Now, nearly a decade after he first purchased the 91,000 acres (37,000 hectares) known as Babcock Ranch, construction is ...

  Mexico City / AFP Martin Vazquez glides silently through the pandemonium of rush hour in Mexico City, drives his sky-blue scooter up to a charging station and plugs it in. When Vazquez, a 28-year-old professional, moved to the Mexican capital a year ago, he drove here by car. But the city’s notorious traffic soon convinced him to sell it and ...