CULTURE AND SPORT

Warner Bros said "The Dark Knight Rises" took in $160.8 million at U.S. and Canadian box offices over the weekend.

Thousands of VIPs including some 120 national leaders have jet into London for Friday's Olympic opening ceremony.

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has been seeded No.10 at the London 2012 Olympics.

While state-owned studios vacillate over a long duration in making a movie, private producers are much more aggressive.

Bradley Wiggins has been crowned Britain's first Tour de France champion, becoming an instant sporting hero at home just ahead of the London Olympics- in which he hopes to star again.

A photo exhibition named “Dong Loc, Mother and Hometown”, has been opened in Ha Tinh Province.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism held a workshop on Thursday to discuss a three-year master plan to improve State management of festivals.

A series of Vietnamese-made cartoons entitled “Say Hi to Pencil” has been aired on Ho Chi Minh City Television at 6.20pm on every Monday and Thursday.

Although costly, water-skiing on Saigon River has become a favourite pastime among a number of young people in HCM City.

Former Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci and ex-basketball star John Amaechi will carry the Olympic flame as it begins a seven-day tour of London on Saturday.

The Vietnamese sports delegation has left the country for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Second-round play began Friday at the British Open with Rory McIlroy among the early starters chasing 18-hole leader Adam Scott and Tiger Woods among the last of the leaders out at Royal Lytham.

The Goethe Institute has launched the Southeast Asian Student Documentary Award, a documentary-making competition for the best works about social and environmental issues focusing on water.

England will defend their ranking as the top Test team in the world when they come up against a strong South African side in the first of three Test matches at the Oval on Thursday.

Rajesh Khanna, often referred to as the "first superstar" of Bollywood and the Hindi film industry's biggest heart-throb in his day, died on Wednesday after months of being unwell.

A Vietnamese martial art is claiming its place beside karate and taekwondo, now that the Southeast Asian Games will allow athletes to compete in vovinam.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced that world football's governing body has adopted a new code of ethics.

When finances at the Ho Chi Minh City Football Club turned sour, the chairman looked to none other than himself.

Artwork by the late Vietnamese painter Bui Xuan Phai is to go up for auction in Singapore on July 28.