CULTURE AND SPORT

The 12th National Youth Martial Arts Tournament opened in Can Tho city, attracting nearly 300 athletes from 30 provinces and cities.

After an 8-year absence, actor Vo Hoai Nam has resumed his career by taking new role.

Japanese video game developer Sega Corp said that information belonging to 1.3 million customers has been stolen from its database.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. halted an operation to clean highly contaminated waste water at a crippled Japanese nuclear plant due to higher-than-expected radiation levels.

The Libyan government has dismissed rebel denials that the two sides have been holding talks and hit out at NATO's air war late.

Diva Thanh Lam and Vietnam Idol 2010 Uyen Linh will share the stage during a music show in Hanoi this weekend.

A global economic recovery could falter unless Europe averts sovereign defaults, the U.S. gets its fiscal house in order, the IMF warned.

Japanese scientists have discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces in order to ease food shortage amid population boom.

Rory McIlroy completed the lowest opening 36 holes in US Open history on Friday despite a double-bogey finish.

Federal prosecutors dropped charges against Osama bin Laden from attacks spanning more than a decade, officials said.

As many as 40 teams will take part in the 2011 Vietnam Offroad Cup in Hanoi on June 25-26.

Embattled Greek PM George Papandreou picked a team of battle-hardened political veterans to carry out deeply unpopular austerity measures.

FIFA had approved the fourth phase of a project to nurture football in Vietnam, a source from the Vietnam Football Federation said.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou axed his finance minister Friday amid the country's crippling dead crisis, a spokesman said.

Harry Potter fans were excited after creator JK Rowling launched a mysterious website counting down to the announcement of a new project.

Al-Qaeda named Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri to succeed Osama bin Laden and the US promptly vowed to kill him just like his predecessor.

BBC is planning to make a documentary about Son Doong, the world’s largest cave, in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh.

Two Greek government lawmakers quit over their party's austerity policies as Prime Minister George Papandreou was to name a new government.

Al-Qaeda named its second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri to succeed Osama bin Laden and vowed to pursue its "jihad' against the U.S.and Israel.