CULTURE AND SPORT

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.

This year's Mekong Tourism Forum will be held on May 7-8 the Angkor Century Resort and Spa, near to Angkor Wat.

“Vietnam and China plan to increase their two-way trade value to US$25 billion in 2010,” announced Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Thanh Bien.

Donor countries attending a major fundraiser for Haiti Wednesday pledged 5.3 billions dollars for the next two years to put the quake-ravaged nation back on its feet.

A growing number of Chinese men are seeking wives from Vietnam because they cannot find a suitable partner in their own country.

The US Embassy in Hanoi and the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City will require all non-immigrant visa applicants to complete a new, electronic, web-based form.

An Islamist group from Russia's restive Caucasus region has claimed responsibility for this week's deadly twin suicide bombings in Moscow.

Seventy-five countries accounting for more than 80 percent of greenhouse gases from energy use have filed pledges to cut or curb carbon emissions by 2020.

A Vietnamese commercial counselor to the US has said the US' final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of plastic bags from Vietnam were unfair.

A suicide bomber set off one of two blasts that killed 13 people in Kizlyar City two days after attacks in Moscow left 39 dead.

A Spokesman for the US Department of State has confirmed Vietnam’s commitment to expanding its programme of nuclear power for civil use in a responsible manner.

Leftist FARC rebels released one of their longest held captives, a soldier kidnapped 12 years ago, the Red Cross said after receiving the hostage in the Colombian jungle.

Vietnam and Australia have set up an agency to combat transnational crimes like terrorism, drugs and weapons trafficking, and economic crimes.

Russia's PM Vladimir Putin ordered security forces to snare the masterminds of the metro bombings that killed 39, saying they should be "scraped out" from the bottom of sewers.