CULTURE AND SPORT

One fifth of Bangkok is now under water as Thailand's worst floods in half a century spread through the capital, an official said.

Vietnam’s chess team is set to win at least three gold medals at the 26th Southeast Asia Games in Indonesia this November.

Miss International Beauty 2009 Vu Hoang Diep has announced that she’d sashay off the catwalk if she got married.

European leaders drew a line in the sand for Greece, saying its referendum on a hard-won bailout deal will decide whether it stays in the eurozone.

China said on Wednesday it hopes Europe will stick to a bailout plan reached at last week's debt crisis summit.

Seven Vietnamese artists are performing in the US at the invitation of the School of Music under the Brigham Young University.

The death toll from Thailand's floods surged above 400 as public anger simmered over the authorities' handling of the crisis.

South Korea's second largest automaker Kia Motors said Wednesday it would build a new plant in China to meet growing demand in the world's fastest-growing car market.

Thousands of anti-capitalists poured into the French Riviera city of Nice for a march against corporate greed ahead of the G20 summit in nearby Cannes, echoing protests worldwide.

Embattled Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou called for a confidence vote and a referendum on last week's EU debt deal.

Libya's interim rulers elected a technocrat and businessman to head a transitional government as NATO ended the air campaign.

More than 600 athletes, coaches and officials took part in a ceremony to send off Vietnam's 26th Southeast Asian Games squad on October 31.

Vietnam is to feature in a popular English-language travel programme on Bulgarian national television called No Luggage.

The US said on Monday it had stopped funding UNESCO following its vote to grant the Palestinians full membership.

China said it successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday to carry out a key docking mission, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020.

The Vietnam-Japan Rock Festival 2011 themed “Go! Go! Japan!” will be held in Hanoi on December 3.

Japan on Monday intervened in currency markets for the first time since August to weaken the yen.

Students in Hanoi and those from other countries living in the city held an impressive Halloween night on October 29.

Air pollution in Beijing reached "hazardous" levels on Monday, the US embassy said, as thick smog blanketed the city for the third day running.