CULTURE AND SPORT

The premier of the cultural show Xin Chao! performed to a packed house on Friday at the Circus Tent, 2 Pham Ngu Lao Street in Ho Chi Minh City's District 1.

The operator of an unlicensed shelter for disabled people in southwest China sold at least 70 mentally ill workers into slavery in recent years, local authorities told state press.

At least 27 people died in a refugee boat accident off western Australia, Customs officials said Wednesday.

A new international accord on global warming has heartened environmentalists, but casting a shadow is the political shift in the US where legislative climate efforts died in 2010.

More than 30 short films produced during the film maker weekend of the first 48 Hour Film Project in Vietnam are being shown to the public for the first time December 13-15.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remained behind bars Wednesday despite a decision by a British court to grant him bail.

Vietnam may soon have a Formula One standard, world-class motor racing stadium.

China said it regretted the World Trade Organisation's rejection of its complaint against punitive US tariffs on Chinese tyres and would appeal "at an appropriate time".

British pop group Wham!'s 1984 hit single "Last Christmas" was voted most annoying Christmas song in a poll in Bulgaria.

Trade costs have remained the largest barrier for least developed countries and the World Bank gathered in Geneva to discuss strategies to address this.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appear in a British court in a second attempt to win bail after he was arrested over allegations of sex crimes in Sweden.

The best meteor shower of the year, a display of shooting stars known as the Geminids, is set to peak early Tuesday.

Vietnam will have to play Malaysia in the first leg of the ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cup semi-finals in Kuala Lumpur without several of the team's best players.

Rescuers on Tuesday called off the search for 17 crew members missing from a South Korean trawler that sank off Antarctica, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to 22.

British police searched a house in southeast England which is thought to be the home of an alleged suicide bomber who blew himself up in Stockholm at the weekend.

Twenty-two fishermen were presumed dead after their South Korean trawler sank suddenly off Antarctica on Monday.

Thirty contemporary oil paintings by French-Vietnamese artist Robert Mihagui are on display at an exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City.

Yearning for a gadget that was bigger than a smartphone but smaller than a laptop made tablet computing a defining trend for 2010.

A storm dumped mounds of snow across the US' upper Midwest, closing major highways and canceling more than 1,600 flights.