CULTURE AND SPORT

The “Style 2010” show at Ho Chi Minh City’s White Place Centre was the first opera-fashion show in Vietnam.

Vietnam won the championship title with 14 gold, five silver and three bronze medals at the third Southeast Asian Pencak Silat tournament.

Sri Lanka's president Tuesday sacked a maverick minister who had tied a state official to a tree as punishment, an official said.

Around 120 seasonal berry pickers from Vietnam staged two demonstrations against their working conditions in Sweden on Tuesday, officials said.

InterContinental Hotels Group plans to create 160,000 jobs by 2014, the world's largest hotels operator said on Tuesday.

An art party in honor of the 1,000th anniversary of Hanoi will be not only for artists, but will also attract all sorts of people from districts throughout the capital.

V-League teams Dong Thap, Nam Dinh and Thanh Hoa have three weeks to convert their clubs into profit-making businesses.

Legendary former US Senator Ted Stevens was killed when a small plane carrying nine people slammed into a remote Alaska mountainside leaving five passengers dead.

Honda announced the recall of 427,000 vehicles because of ignition problems which could allow drivers to remove their key when the vehicle is not in park.

Russia fought a deadly battle Tuesday to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites as alarm mounted over the impact on health of a toxic smoke cloud.

Rescuers in northwest China battled on with the grim task of searching for over 1,100 people missing in huge mudslides that have killed 337, but hopes faded.

The 2010 Vietnam International Open Dance Sport Tournament, the Me Trang Cup, will be held in Hanoi on August 13-14.

The daily mortality rate in Moscow has doubled amid an acrid smog caused by the worst heatwave in Russia's history.

The United Nations said Monday that massive floods in Pakistan had affected 13.8 million people and eclipsed the scale of the devastating 2004 tsunami.

North Korea fired an artillery barrage Monday into waters near the disputed inter-Korean sea border.

The Chinese government has ordered over 2,000 firms in high-polluting and energy-intensive industries to shut down outdated plants.

Thang Long ca tru club revived the endangered Hat tho cua dinh, a genre of Vietnamese folk music, recently in Hanoi.

American Hunter Mahan jumped out of the pack Sunday to win the 8.5 million-dollar World Golf Championships Bridgestone Invitational.

The northern mountain province of Lao Cai is preparing for the Mountaineering Championships to conquer Fansipan Mountain.