CULTURE AND SPORT

Taekwondo athletes Nguyen Thanh Thao and Nguyen Quoc Cuong won a silver and a bronze medal for Vietnam at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

Czech qualifier Iveta Benesova has stunned Serbian top seed Jelena Jankovic to reach the third round of the two million-dollar WTA Montreal Cup.

The 2010 Miss Global Vietnam has been cancelled despite the fact that its contestants have arrived from all over the world.

A Mexican drug gang is hiring pretty young women to carry out killings to surprise its enemies, a suspected member of the vicious La Linea gang said in a video.

Vung Tau won two gold medals, two silvers, and one bronze in the national golf championship that was held in the central province of Binh Thuan.

A British folk singer revealed how John Lennon sent him a letter of reassurance -- but it did not reach him for 34 years.

China insisted Tuesday it was still a developing nation despite overtaking Japan as the world's second largest economy.

The United Nations warned of a "second wave of death" in flood-stricken Pakistan.

A Boeing 737 crash-landed on a Colombian island, split in three, but somehow only one passenger died.

Apple's South Korean distributor said Monday it would start taking preorders for the iPhone 4 this week before its official launch next month.

An exhibition entitled “Dingbats Brazil” will be held at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum o­n August 21-30.

Hanoi T&T drew with Navibank Sai Gon 0-0 yesterday, August 15, to secure the season title with 46 points, one round earlier than expected.

Japan's economy was outpaced by China in the second quarter on nominal terms, data showed Monday.

Australian police say a Vietnamese man was killed when a tourist bus crashed in south-west Victoria on Sunday afternoon.

South Korea and the United States launched a new round of war games on Monday involving tens of thousands of troops, despite threats of retaliation from North Korea.

An Apple employee has been charged with selling secrets to Asian suppliers of the tech giant, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

The Vietnam pageant closed in Ha Long city and Hanoi's constestant Dang Thi Ngoc Han was crowned as the beauty queen.

Australian scientists have discovered a cluster of brilliant shallow-water corals that could help in the search for anti-cancer drugs and to understand global warming.

The Vietnamese translation of Wayne Karlin’s Wandering Souls, a novel about the American War in Vietnam, has hit bookstores throughout the nation.