CULTURE AND SPORT

Vietnamese athletes Ngo Huu Ky Phong and Le Thanh Cong both won gold medals at the Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011.

Influential US artist Cy Twombly, who died aged 83, was a key figure in the post-war abstract art world with a career spanning six decades.

About 200 people drowned in the Red Sea when a boat carrying migrants to Saudi Arabia sank off the Sudanese coast, Sudanese media say.

The latest "Pirates of the Caribbean" blockbuster has crossed the billion-dollar mark at the global box office, Disney said Tuesday.

The World Trade Organisation ruled Tuesday against China's export restrictions on raw materials.

Japan will conduct a "stress test" on all its nuclear plants following the crisis at the tsunami-struck Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japanese media said.

Vietnamese -French artist Nguyen Le will bring his world music and jazz to the Music on the Roof show at the Rooftop Bar, in Hanoi, on July 12-13.

Twenty players of the U16 Vietnamese football team will compete at the U16 Southeast Asian Football Championships in Laos from July 5-21.

Japan's cabinet approved a $24 billion second special budget to finance relief and rebuilding after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

A French writer is set to launch legal action for attempted rape against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Police in China had detained a man accused of detonating a remote-controlled bomb in a Shanghai supermarket, destroying several lockers.

Japan's minister in charge of disaster reconstruction said Tuesday he would resign after just a week in the post.

More than 7,000 workers from a US-run massive gold and copper mine in Indonesia started a week-long strike to demand better wages.

Vast deposits of rare earth minerals have been found on the floor of the Pacific Ocean and can be readily extracted, Japanese scientists said.

Singer Thu Minh and her partner Lechezar Todorov became champions in the Vietnamese version Dancing with the Stars 2011.

As the US winds down its shuttle programme, Russia will gain complete control of access to the International Space Station.

Allies of Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra will scramble to form a coalition government Monday after a huge poll victory.

Vietnam’s national flag was hoisted above the Choa Chu Kang Stadium, Singapore, on the 1st day of competition of 2011 ASEAN Schools Games.

Nearly 200 rhinos were killed in South Africa in the first half of 2011, environmental group WWF said.