CULTURE AND SPORT

Attending the 1st International Summit of the Mekong River Commission held in Thailand, PM Nguyen Tan Dung met with the host PM, Lao PM and the WB Vice President.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Mexico rocked buildings as far away as southern California.

More than 40 former Russian experts who worked in Vietnam during the wartime gathered on the outskirts of Moscow for the celebration of their first coming to Vietnam 45 years ago.

A New Zealand architecture firm has won an international competition to help design a massive university in Vietnam.

Three suicide car bombs targeting the Iranian and Egyptian embassies rocked Baghdad Sunday, killing 30 people in a surge of violence.

Apple's hotly-anticipated iPads are finally in consumers' hands in what the maker of iPods and iPhones heralds as a personal computing revolution.

The first group of rescuers and divers entered a flooded Chinese mine where 153 workers have been trapped for almost a week.

Vietnamese cuisine lovers and French-speaking chefs from around the globe gathered in Paris for a four-day food festival dubbed “Cooks’ village in Paris”.

PMs were unanimous that the two countries should deepen their bilateral cooperation in key fields.

Air France signed a code share agreement with Vietnam Airlines that will allow clients to fly directly from Paris to Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City.

It was more than a century ago that French colonialists began building a railway from Hai Phong in Vietnam to Kunming, in Southwest China's Yunnan province.

"Dancing with the Stars", the popular television show that brings celebrities to the dance floor is making its way to Vietnam.

Russian investigators have identified one of the female suicide bombers who carried out the Moscow metro bombings as the 17-year-old widow of a Caucasus militant.

US media outlets are gushing like star-struck lovers over the Apple iPad in early reviews as software makers hustle to ready programs for its much-anticipated sales launch.

A three-way road transport agreement between Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia will be signed in June, said a Vietnamese transport official.

Thailand's "Red Shirt" supporters of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra defied mounting pressure from the battered tourism industry to end protests seeking to topple the government.

Players from Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam are taking part in the 2010 National Tennis Championships Open, which started in HCM City on March 31.

A car blew up in Russia's restive North Caucasus Thursday with the country on high alert after an Islamist group claimed the Moscow metro bombings and warned of more strikes.

Flying car mechanics and flavoured newspaper pages were among April Fool's Day jokes awaiting Britons in their papers Thursday.