CULTURE AND SPORT

Vision of the disastrous tsunami rolling onto Japan after last week's massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake will provide valuable data to scientists.

The second World Vovinam Championships will be held in Ho Chi Minh City late July.

Japan was considering spraying water and boric acid over a stricken nuclear plant in a desperate measure to contain radiation.

Explosions and a fire at Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant unleashed dangerous levels of radiation on Tuesday, sparking a collapse on the stock market.

Hundreds of objects, photographs and documents relating to the development of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union are being displayed in Hanoi.

Information about prospective jurors in the upcoming perjury trial of home run king Barry Bonds will be made public, but not the jurors' names, according to a judge.

Japan's nuclear crisis will boost interest in clean renewables such as solar and wind power but may also sharpen demand for coal, oil and gas, experts said.

A third explosion in four days rocked a crippled nuclear power plant in tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan.

Russia announced a delay in the planned launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station on March 30 due to a technical problem.

Legendary American singer Bob Dylan, whose songs became anthems of the 1960s anti-Vietnam War era, will play his first concert in the country.

Vietnam's carom ace will be playing Turkey's Cenet Lutfi and Tayfun Tasdemir in the World Championship Team 3-Cushion Championship in Germany.

The 1st international football festival for young people was opened on March 12, at Vietnam Football Youth Training Centre, in Hanoi.

A film entitled “Fate of a Songstress in Thang Long” won the prize for best film in 2010 at Vietnam’s Golden Kite Awards.

Nicaraguan-American disc jockey Craze, a six-time winner of the World DJ Championship, will perform in Hanoi this week.

Nick Watney arrived at the USD8.5 million Cadillac Championship one of the hottest players in golf.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. says 3 workers have been injured and 7 are missing after an explosion at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.

Soldiers warned that another tsunami could hit, as an explosion rocked the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

The death toll in Japan's earthquake and tsunami will likely exceed 10,000 in one state alone.

Millions of Japanese were without drinking water or electricity Sunday, two days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami hammered the northeastern coast.