CULTURE AND SPORT

Drugmaker Abbott Laboratories said it is recalling millions of containers of its best-selling Similac infant formula that may be contaminated with insect parts.

Nguyen Tien Minh from Vietnam advanced to the second round of the Japan Super Series Badminton Tournament by beating Yan Kit Chan of Hong Kong.

Overseas Vietnamese Nguyen Ngoc Kieu Khanh will represent Vietnam in the Miss World 2010 pageant in Sanya, China.

Taiwan luxury sedan maker Luxgen Motor plans to start exporting its vehicles to five foreign markets, including Vietnam, from the fourth quarter.

US President Barack Obama called Wednesday for greater urgency in the fight against the world's social ills as a UN poverty summit ended.

A Vietnamese war child who was adopted by a British family forty years ago has sold all of her possessions to fund an orphanage in her home country.

An exhibition called “Memories of the First Independence Day” was held in Hanoi on September 21.

Vietnam’s national football squad defeated U23 Kuwait 3-0 on Monday to take the lead of the Millennium Thang Long-Hanoi Cup.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday announced a 40-billion-dollar drive to improve the health of women and children.

Former president Bill Clinton on Tuesday launched the sixth year of his annual conference to find ways to help the world's poor.

1,000 domestic and foreign golfers will compete in the qualifying round of a golf tournament to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

After coping with the worst of the global economic crisis, the International Air Transport Association revised its 2010 industry outlook and is now projecting a profit of $8.9 billion.

When Singapore first announced it was building a Universal Studios theme park, sceptics wondered if the complex would draw enough crowds to be commercially viable.

A rare meeting of North Korea's ruling communist party expected to pave the way for an eventual leadership succession will be held late this month.

Vietnam's only karate gold-medal winner at the last Asian Games (ASIAD), Vu Thi Nguyet Anh, will defend her title at the Games in Guangzhou, China in November.

The 17 nations responsible for 80 percent of carbon emissions blamed for global warming will seek to unblock stalled climate negotiations.

World leaders are kicking off a summit to hammer out new ways to meet ambitious targets set a decade ago.

Prime Minister has asked Hanoi and other localities in the nation to build the Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese ethnic groups into an attractive destination.

The 2010 International Men's Trans-Viet cycling tournament will kick of on September 23.