CULTURE AND SPORT

The first international cultural exchange Halloween festival in Hanoi will take place at West Lake Park on October 31.

Coral reefs in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean are dying from the worst bleaching effect in more than a decade, Australian marine scientists said Tuesday.

The World Bank warned that capital inflows into fast-growing East Asian economies have inflated regional currencies and could threaten growth.

Vietnam's top three-cushion billiards player Duong Anh Vu will compete in the 63rd World Three Cushion Championships from tomorrow to Sunday in Sluiskil, the Netherlands.

The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines in years killed at least 10 people as it generated waves as big as houses and destroyed swathes of vital rice crops, authorities said Tuesday.

Philippine authorities said Tuesday the death toll from Typhoon Megi had risen to three.

International Monetary Fund and central bank officials from around the world met in China Monday to discuss ways to boost the global economic recovery.

Russian oil company TNK-BP said it had agreed a deal with BP to acquire the troubled British oil giant's assets in Vietnam and Venezuela for 1.8 billion dollars.

The Vietnam International Film Festival opened with the attendance of many film makers, directors, actors and actresses.

Japan's Prime Minister voiced regret over a wave of angry anti-Japanese protests in China at the weekend.

A Vietnamese hip-hop dance crew has bagged the first prize at Southeast Asia's Battle of the Year contest in Singapore.

In the next 40 years, an unprecedented number of women will be in positions of power, and Muslim immigration to the West will rise, a new report says.

A South Korean fishing boat with 43 people on board has been seized by Somali pirates off the coast of Kenya, the foreign ministry said Sunday.

A China coal mine accident killed 20 miners and left another 17 missing underground Saturday, the government said.

The end of the world as we know it cannot be avoided, but it can be predicted, according to a group of astrophysicists.

Vietnam’s first International Film Festival will take place in Hanoi from October 17 to 21, 2010 and will showcase the best in Vietnamese and global cinema.

Two International Grand Masters Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son will compete in the Cap D’Agde Rapid Chess tournament in France from October 23-31.

Carbon pollution and over-use of Earth's natural resources have become so critical that we will need a second planet to meet our needs by 2030, the WWF said.

Google reported that its quarterly profit soared on the back of its thriving Internet advertising service and that its display and mobile ad businesses are taking wing.