CULTURE AND SPORT

Vu Thi Huong finished third in the women’s 100m sprint, but it was not enough to satisfy Vietnam’s desire for their first gold medal at the 16th Asian games.

United Nations leaders will demand "concrete results" from the looming Cancun climate summit as global warming is accelerating.

Australian police have arrested 34 people and seized 6,000 cannabis plants in the biggest series of drug raids in the history of Victoria state.

Cambodia began the grim task of identifying almost 350 people crushed to death in a bridge stampede.

A lively performance by German jazz ensemble Tharichen's Tentett in Hanoi this Friday will kick off this year's European Music Festival.

North Korea's claims to have a working uranium enrichment plant - a possible second route to a nuclear bomb - sparked anger in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.

San Jose police are investigating multiple reports of fraud committed against members of the city's Vietnamese community, the San Jose police said.

A Moscow-bound passenger jet made an emergency landing back in New York on Sunday after developing an engine problem shortly after takeoff, aviation officials said.

Luu Thi Diem Huong from the host country of Vietnam won the first prize in the bikini contest at the Miss Earth 2010 pageant in Phu Yen Province.

The Yemen-based branch of Al-Qaeda has vowed further small but frequent attacks against the West such as last month's cargo plane parcel bombs.

Vietnam has won 11 silvers and 11 bronzes at the 16th Asian Games after seven days of competition, ranking 20th in the medal tally as by Nov. 19.

The Western allies have agreed a plan to bring their war in Afghanistan to an end within four years, and won over a cautious Russia to the cause of a European anti-missile shield.

Al-Qaeda and its allies are planning an attack on the German parliament, the news magazine Der Spiegel reports in its edition to be published on Monday.

India's premier defended himself against accusations of inaction in a 40-billion-dollar telecoms scandal as he promised anyone found guilty in the case would be punished.

Rescuers were given clearance to "immediately" enter a New Zealand coal mine where 29 men are missing a day after a gas explosion, a senior official was reported saying.

Vietnam will attend the 2010 Rainforest Challenge, the first time that the country will join an event of this kind.

The Long Bien Bridge Festival will open this weekend with more events and performers than ever.

The WHO warned that resistance to malaria drug artemisinin appeared to be spreading in the region from the Cambodia-Thailand border, where it was first detected.

A French-Vietnamese, a Pakistani-American, a Japanese and an Indian got togerther to play jazz.