CULTURE AND SPORT

Vietnam lost 0-3 to Laos in the second match of Group F qualifiers for the 2012 AFC U-16 Championship.

Spain's San Sebastian international film festival opens Friday supplying a dose of terror and comedy, with a clutch of Asian films in the running for top prize.

The EU moved closer to toughening budget rules to punish overspenders after the EU Parliament and governments reached a compromise.

The United States won the World Cup's 'cold war' against Russia as the All Blacks' injury toll took a sudden turn for the worse.

String quartet Diotima, featuring musical talents from France, will hit the capital's stage on September 22.

Swiss banking giant UBS revealed an estimated loss of $2 billion after the discovery of unauthorised trading at its investment bank.

Researchers in Australia said they had discovered that dolphin colonies living around Melbourne are a species unlike any other in the world.

Emerging economies "could help to temporarily reduce this moment of volatility but it won't resolve the problem" of structural weaknesses in the eurozone, analysts say.

Authorities in Quang Binh decided to fine the organiser of a charity event VND3.5 million for singers who wore skimpy costumes.

Facebook is letting members follow strangers Twitter-style in the latest of a barrage of data maelstrom-taming moves since rival social network Google+ launched in June.

A key US government report spreads the blame for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, citing a bad cement job, poor management by BP and its subcontractors.

Vietnamese martial artists have won three gold medals, three silvers and six bronzes at the pre-Southeast Asian Games Kempo Shorinji Tournament.

The US poverty rate rose in 2010 to 15.1 percent, the highest since 1993, according to census data.

Asia's developing economies will post slower-than-expected growth this year and in 2012 as key trading partners reduce orders amid worries about the global economy.

The world's population will surge to seven billion next month and the challenge is not a lack of living space but how to empower disenfranchised women and girls.

Vietnam Fashion Fair 2011 will be held at the Giang Vo Exhibition Centre in Hanoi from December 19-25.

Al-Qaeda has released a video marking the anniversary of 9/11, monitoring group SITE Intelligence said Tuesday.

Vietnam’s U19 football squad is leading Group B of the ASEAN Football Federation U19 Youth Championships in Myanmar.

Vietnam's top football division is facing a major crisis as clubs have come out in support of a proposal to establish a break-away.