CULTURE AND SPORT

Half a billion. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it a nice number.

U.S. President Obama signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules since the Great Depression.

China has said it plans to invest 738 billion dollars developing clean energy over the next decade.

The general public will be given priority for tickets for the 2012 London Olympics and everything possible will be done to fill stadiums, the chief organiser said.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought to convince an international conference in Kabul that his government could assume full leadership by 2014.

Even while on a diplomatic mission to Vietnam and other Asian countries, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finds time to be a nervous mother.

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh triumphed in the Australian Open Grand Prix.

A speeding express rammed into the back of a stationary passenger train in eastern India on Monday, killing more than 50 people.

Iranian MPs passed a bill obligating Tehran to continue 20-percent uranium enrichment, defying mounting Western pressure to halt such work.

An actress and a model disappointed Vietnamese audiences after inflating their image and roles in a Hollywood movie.

Engineers probed BP\'s ruptured Gulf oil well for leaks but said a giant cap placed on it two days ago appears to be holding despite puzzling pressure readings.

Tropical Storm Conson was downgraded from a typhoon and is forecast to make a final landfall near Hanoi.

Settle in as David Cornish gets to know one of Vietnam’s top bands, The Props.

Two years after an economic crisis, questions remain as to whether the latest measures to prevent another collapse will work.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea armed force on July 15 held their first round of talks with the US-led UN Command.

Three accords that define the land border between Vietnam and China came into effect yesterday.

Newly released documents show senators of the time sharply questioning whether they had been deceived by the White House and the Pentagon.

Troops scoured jagged coastlines on the Philippines\' eastern seaboard in search of dozens of fishermen who went missing after a typhoon that killed 23 people.

The odds that Joan Ginther would hit four Texas Lottery jackpots for a combined nearly $21 million are astronomical.