CULTURE AND SPORT

Defending champion Pham Van Mach has left for India to defend his world bodybuilding title on October 30-31 in Varanasi.

Twelve workers were killed and one injured in a flood in a coal mine in southwest China's Guizhou province, state media said Thursday.

Around 100 musicians from ten ASEAN member countries will join the first-ever ASEAN symphony orchestra to mark the forthcoming 17th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi.

Federal officials arrested a Pakistani-American man for plotting a series of bomb attacks on Washington's subway system.

Helicopters with emergency supplies landed on the remote islands slammed by a tsunami that killed at least 272 people.

A good strategy and a balanced team are a must if the national Olympic football team is to gain good results at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou next month.

The high-tech nation is pushing the initiative to promote some of its ancient village wisdom as a way to heal battered environments worldwide.

At least 137 people were killed after a tsunami smashed into a remote island chain and Mount Merapi erupted on the island of Java.

At least 108 people were killed and more than 500 missing Tuesday, after a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake hit a remote Indonesian island chain.

Dong Tam Long An football club introduced its new coach, Marcelo Javier Zuleta from Argentina.

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.