CULTURE AND SPORT

China has suspended senior bilateral contact with Japan over the detention of a Chinese captain, state media said Sunday.

The United Nations was to hold a special ministerial meeting aimed at securing emergency aid for the millions of victims of devastating floods in Pakistan.

Bermuda was bracing Saturday for a direct hit from the massive Hurricane Igor just after after another cyclone lashed Mexico, killing three people.

Famous Italian flautist Andrea Griminelli will come back Vietnam for a concert at the Hanoi Opera House on September 20.

Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday he was deeply ashamed of the "unspeakable" sexual abuse of children by priests.

Tennis players David Nalbandian and Tommy Haas will be taking part in the Vietnam's Heineken Stars 2010 tournament.

Afghanistan's voters are set to go to the polls Saturday to elect their second parliament since the collapse of Taliban rule with security forces on full alert against threatened attacks.

At least 60 people were killed in eastern Sri Lanka on Friday after an accidental blast at an explosives depot at a police station.

An intriguing story about an amnesiac who tries to piece together his turbulent past and uncovers a spine-chilling secret is set to thrill audiences in Vietnam and the US.

Between the world's thirst for energy and efforts on climate change, free market forces cannot solve all global issues, energy experts were told.

One of the world's rarest animals, the saola, known as the ''Asian unicorn'', has been sighted for the first time in more than a decade.

Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic Church had dropped its guard on paedophilia and had failed to deal with the issue quickly enough.

Google is trying to put together an online music service that would take on Apple's market-ruling iTunes, according to a report at Billboard.com.

Cambodia's UN-backed tribunal on Thursday indicted four former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Champions and co-costs Vietnam have been drawn with three-times winners Singapore in the 2010 AFF Cup, Southeast Asia's premier soccer tournament.

Princess Clotilde Courau is to celebrate sexual freedom on the stage of Paris' palace of striptease, the Crazy Horse.

Ontiveros recently beat out baristas worldwide to take first place at the 2010 The Coffee Bean World Barista Competition, which was held in Vietnam.

Gadget-mad South Korea now has more mobile phones than people, telecoms authorities said Wednesday.

Rampant substandard moon cakes available in market have raise public concerns.