CULTURE AND SPORT

A powerful 7.6-magnitude undersea earthquake triggered tsunami alerts for New Zealand and Tonga.

At least 36 people are trapped underground at a coal mine in eastern China after a fire broke out, state media reported Thursday.

Violinist Do Phuong Nhi, 13, will join the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra to perform in major cities in a concert tour held by Toyota Vietnam.

Doctors in Britain revealed they have developed a new model to help determine which pregnancies run a higher risk of miscarriage.

China raised a key interest rate Wednesday for a third time this year as it tries to cool surging inflation.

The world needs $1.9 trillion in green technology investments a year, with over half of that sum necessary for developing countries," the UN said.

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.