HANOI, July 13 — Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has ordered Hanoi to ban all fossil fuel motorbikes and mopeds from the city’s inner Ring Road 1 starting July 1, 2026, as part of a sweeping new effort to tackle worsening pollution.

LONDON, June 27 — Global carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector hit a record high for the fourth year running last year as fossil fuel use kept rising even as renewable energy reached a record high, the Energy Institute’s annual statistical review of world energy showed yesterday.

PUTRAJAYA, May 21 — The federal government and Sarawak signed a joint declaration on matters involving Petronas and Sarawak’s Petros.

MOSCOW, May 4 — Eight Opec+ countries that adhere to voluntary oil production cuts, including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria, and Oman, will increase oil production by an additional 411,000 barrels per day in June from the level in May, according to an official communique by Opec released yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 4 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today urged all parties to postpone any actions or statements regarding the issue of Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) and Petroleum Sarawak Bhd (Petros), in the interest of mutual understanding.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 13 — The Economy Ministry will launch the Natural Gas Roadmap in the second or third quarter of this year to ramp up investments into the sector, said its minister Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli today.

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 — President Donald Trump yesterday laid out a sweeping plan to maximise US oil and gas production — including by declaring a national energy emergency, stripping away regulation, and withdrawing the US from an international pact to fight climate change.

SINGAPORE, Oct 22 — Southeast Asia needs to increase clean energy investments to US$190 billion (RM821.2 billion), about five times the current level, by 2035 to achieve its climate goals, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today.

SINGAPORE, June 13 — Singapore is offering refiners and petrochemical companies rebates of up to 76 per cent for its planned carbon tax for 2024 and 2025 to help them ease cost stress and remain competitive versus rivals elsewhere, four sources familiar with the matter said.

LONDON, June 6 — Global investment in clean energy technology and infrastructure is set to hit US$2 trillion (RM9.36 trillion) this year, twice the amount going into fossil fuels, an International Energy Agency (IEA) report showed.

WASHINGTON, June 6 — United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres said yesterday countries must confront not just the fossil fuel industry, but also companies that support efforts to obstruct climate action.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 20 — After two weeks of negotiations, nearly 200 countries adopted the first-ever Global Stocktake at the just concluded United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

DUBAI, Dec 13 — A new draft for the final declaration of the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai does not include the clear phase-out of coal, oil and gas demanded by many countries.