L’Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has become the first woman to amass a $100bn (£78.5bn; €90.1bn) fortune, according to a ranking of the richest people in the world.   The French beauty empire founded by her grandfather is on track for its best stock market performance in decades. L’Oréal shares rose to a record high […]

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In 1980 Geoff Chutter found himself “mortgaged to the underside of the nostrils”, and the owner of a brand new water park. The then 28-year-old had no previous experience of working in the world of giant water slides and swimming pools, but he thought it would be more fun than continuing to work as an […]

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There are 51 electric models — and counting — on the market now. The recent headlines for electric vehicles have been brutal: Sales are dropping. Momentum is slipping. Consumers are souring on the technology. Experts say, however, that 2024 may be the year to finally pull the plug on gasoline-powered cars and trucks. “Five years […]

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Imagine you have been transported to Mars as a robot avatar.    Would you and your colleagues benefit from team building in a VR world?  Around you in this virtual reality (VR), computer-simulated world are other people also walking around as robots. Your mission is to work together to overcome a number of challenges, and […]

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Vietnam witnessed the establishment of 159,294 enterprises, marking the highest number ever recorded and a 7.2% increase from 2022, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment. A worker at a factory producing lens in northern Hoa Binh Province, June 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy The figure is 1.2 times the average level for 2017-2022, […]

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Phu Quoc, HCMC, Hanoi and Da Nang attracted hordes of foreign tourists during the three-day New Year holiday, heralding a fruitful year for tourism. A foreign man joins the crowd to ring in the New Year in Phu Quoc, Dec. 31 2023. Photo by Nhat Le Craig Holowell, an Australian tourist, and his wife arrived […]

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Vietnam’s GDP grew by 5.05% in 2023, lower than target by one percentage point, but still outpacing many other nations, according to the government. A person shops at a supermarket in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran Over the past decade, this growth rate surpassed only those of 2020 and 2021, years significantly […]

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Rob Khazzam, co-founder and CEO of the Canadian fintech company, enters the BBC’s Executive Lounge to talk about how a laser-focus on customers breeds the innovation clients truly need. The first step in figuring out what customers need? Putting yourself in their shoes. It wasn’t hard for Rob Khazzam – he’d experienced the problem he […]

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I’m at the Wageningen University’s Farm of the Future, where I had been expecting to see robots and perhaps, drones flying overhead. Wijnand Sukkel’s work aims to ensure future food supply and cut carbon emissions in farming But on a bright blue day project manager Wijnand Sukkel stands in the expansive fields across from the […]

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“The ocean is an unforgiving place,” says Susan Hunt. “But our technology is designed to operate there – it goes up and down in the waves, all day and all night.” Oneka Technologies makes floating desalination systems that are solely powered by the movement of waves Ms Hunt is chief innovation officer for a Canadian […]

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