CULTURE AND SPORT

More than 1,000 tigers have been killed in the past decade to fuel the illegal trade in parts of the endangered big cats, a report by a wildlife monitoring group said.

AMPAS has officially invited Film Director Dang Nhat Minh to attend a special ceremony in honour of his contributions to Vietnamese cinematography.

US President Barack Obama finally made a much-delayed return to his boyhood home of Indonesia on Tuesday.

Vietnam upset Bahrain 3-1 in their first match of the Asian Games in China’s Guangzhou Monday.

A conference in Laos aims to speed up efforts to rid the world of cluster bombs.

Frightened residents abandoned their homes in a bustling city of 400,000 at the foot of Indonesia's rumbling volcano Monday.

Business groups from around the world have urged leaders at this week's G20 summit to ensure the supply of rare earth minerals.

China will spend $4.5 billion searching for domestic mineral deposits over the next five years in a bid to lessen its reliance on imported products, state media said.

Vietnam’s athlete delegation to the 16th Asian Games organised a departure ceremony in Hanoi on Nov. 7.

Ministers of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum this week are likely to agree on banning fresh protectionist measures to safeguard the world economy, a report said Monday.

Qantas extended the grounding of its fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbos after uncovering "slight anomalies" in some engines after a mid-air blow-out caused a major scare last week.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Dannenberg, northern Germany, vowing to block a nuclear waste convoy arriving from France.

A Sydney woman underwent emergency surgery to remove 41 balloons packed with heroin from her stomach, police said.

US President Barack Obama arrived in India Saturday on the first leg of a trade-focused Asia tour that will kick off with a sombre tribute to the victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The Germany-based famous music group Mouse on Mars will arrive in Vietnam for performances in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on November 12 and 13.

Rescuers picked through the rubble of destroyed homes as officials prepared for a mass burial of people killed by the violent eruption of Indonesia's most active volcano.

The Vietnamese chess team has a good chance to win a medal at the 2010 Asian Games thanks to Le Quang Liem’s impressive performance.

Vietnam is part of a new global film movement that begins Saturday, screening films on one night simultaneously in 12 countries.

Emergency crews recovered the charred remains of the victims of Cuba's worst plane crash in two decades in which all 68 people on board were killed.