CULTURE AND SPORT

US sprinter Mike Rodgers was handed a provisional suspension after a positive drug test and won't race at the athletics World Championships, according to the US Anti-Doping Agency.

Apple plans to begin trial production of a next generation iPad in October with an eye to an early 2012 launch, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Thua Thien - Hue Province’s culture department is drafting a plan to build a theater for Ca Hue (Hue folk music singing).

Novak Djokovic has breezed through his 3rd round match but Rafael Nadal was pushed to the limit before he reached the quarter-finals in Cincinnati.

Vietnam's futsal (indoor football) team will play against Malaysia in the opener in the Asian Football ConfederationFutsal Championship qualifiers.

Bank of America will cut 3,500 jobs this quarter, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

US President Barack Obama led a chorus of calls by world leaders for Syria's president to step down.

Hewlett-Packard, the world's top personal computer maker, announced Thursday it is considering spinning off its PC unit in a historic shift away from the consumer market.

US President Barack Obama has led a chorus of calls by world leaders for Syria's president to step down.

The fifth sports and cultural festival for ethnic minority groups opened in the northernmost mountainous province of Ha Giang on August 17.

Vietnam will play in Group B of the ASEAN Zone qualifiers, which will take place from November 26 to December 1, 2011.

US Vice President Joe Biden told his Chinese counterpart global economic stability depended on the two nations.

Model Jessica Minh Anh is ready to take high fashion 44m off the ground in the very first fashion show to be held on London's iconic Tower Bridge.

Novak Djokovic barely broke a sweat as he routed American Ryan Harrison 6-2, 6-3 to breeze into the 3rd round of the ATP and WTA tournament.

US Vice President Joe Biden will meet the man widely expected to become China's next leader under a cloud of criticism over America's debt crisis.

To celebrate the first anniversary of HCMC Vietnamese Designers House there will be a My Style fashion show at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.

Japan on Wednesday approved the full resumption of commercial operations of an atomic reactor for the first time since the March 11 quake and tsunami, which sparked the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

A British government minister says up to 400,000 Somali children could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken.

The Swiss government said it would spend two billion francs to counter the impact of the strong franc on the domestic economy.