CULTURE AND SPORT

Recent years have seen an increasing number of Vietnamese films entering the world film market, with the establishment of private film studios.

At least 45 people were dead after a powerful storm whipped up tornadoes in seven southern US states, media reported Sunday. 

The acclaimed Philadelphia Orchestra said it would file for bankruptcy, the first major US performance ensemble to do so during the nation's current economic turmoil.

The economic reform policy will be the focus of discussion at the 6th National Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC), which is taking place in Havana. 

General Motors received more clean energy patents in the past year than any other company, a study released Friday said.

The NBA plans to submit a revised proposal for a new collective contract to players within the next fortnight, commissioner David Stern said.

President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the US House of Representatives muscled their politically risky budget to passage Friday.

Fighting raged in the long-besieged rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata on Friday and Moamer Kadhafi's hometown was reportedly hit by NATO.

One of the most looked-forward to musical events of the year, this year’s Cama Festival is heralding the coming summer with hot performances.

The embattled operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant promised an initial one million yen in compensation to each family living close to the facility.

A Libyan future including Moamer Kadhafi is "unthinkable" and would represent an "unconscionable betrayal" by the rest of the world.

The Cherry-blossom or Genki Festival 2011 will take place in Hanoi on April 16-17.

Global finance chiefs moved to aid strife-torn North Africa as the IMF and WB warned of more potential social unrest from high food prices.

BP was facing angry protesters and disgruntled shareholders on Thursday at its first annual general meeting since an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Movie-goers flocked to see what is billed as the world's first 3D porn film as it opened to packed cinemas across Hong Kong on Thursday.

Japan's seismologists were so entrenched in outdated beliefs about seismic hazard that they became blinkered to the risk of the March 11 quake, the journal Nature charged.

One of the leading French pianists, Roger Muraro, will perform in Hanoi and HCM City on April 23 and 26 2011.

World powers offered cash to Libya's rebels and the means "to defend themselves" as they issued fresh demands for Moamer Kadhafi to relinquish power.

US President Barack Obama unveiled a $4 trillion deficit reduction drive on Wednesday and savaged Republican plans that he said would reward the rich.