CULTURE AND SPORT

At least 160 people are missing from an Indonesian village that was pounded by an enormous wave after an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra caused a local tsunami.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's government warned Monday that strikes against pension reform have cost up to three billion euros.

Washington came under increasing pressure to investigate allegations in the leaked Iraq war documents published by WikiLeaks.

At least 14 people have been killed and 58 more injured in a fire at an oil well in central Myanmar, but the cause was unknown, an official in the military-ruled country said Monday.

A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground.

Switzerland and Germany will take a step to resolve a spat on taxation on Thursday, the Swiss finance ministry said.

A sudden cholera epidemic has killed 220 people, officials said as Haiti scrambled to contain a wider outbreak 10 months after an earthquake devastated the nation.

A Japanese film week was launched in Nha Trang by the Consulate General of Japan in HCM City and the Khanh Hoa provincial department for Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The United States looked set to win G20 backing Saturday to tackle groaning trade imbalances.

Top striker Le Cong Vinh's chances of taking part in December's ASEAN Football Championship, AFF-Suzuki Cup remain unclear.

Graphic accounts of torture, civilian killings and Iran's hand in the Iraq war are detailed in hundreds of thousands of US military documents made public on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. announced the recall of nearly 528,000 vehicles worldwide Friday due to a defect with the cylinder that holds brake fluid.

The Ship for Southeast Asia Youth Programme is a big regional event with young people from 10 ASEAN and Japan taking part in.

A regional forum on human trafficking and migration will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from October 24-30.

Tigers could become extinct within 12 years but a top level meeting in Russia next month could help reverse the decline, nature conservation body WWF said.

Lawmakers yesterday deliberated on a draft environmental-tax law, focusing on which products should be taxed, who is taxable and what is the appropriate tax rate.

The first Vietnam International Film Festival wrapped up with Vietnam's Nhat Kim Anh taking home the Best Actress Award.

President Aquino will keep his travel expenses low when he visits Vietnam next week to attend a regional summit, a Palace official said.

At least 160,000 people were evacuated from southern China as Typhoon Megi bore down, bringing with it the threat of devastation.