CULTURE AND SPORT

The US Congress passed an historic health care overhaul, handing President Barack Obama a landmark win.

A small earthquake struck northern Haiti early Sunday, collapsing an apartment building and killing at least three people, a U.N. spokesman said.

Thailand was locked in political stalemate Sunday with demonstrators planning a fresh protest with their own blood after refusing talks offered by the government.

President Barack Obama says that the United States wants more educational and cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the Internet to give them a more hopeful future.

An American man who scouted targets for the deadly 2008 Mumbai terrorist strike pleaded guilty to a dozen criminal charges.

Complaints of sudden acceleration in Toyotas repaired under recalls have nearly doubled in the past two weeks.

Hanoi may be the only place where you can follow experimental art with dinner in a snake restaurant, writes Mark Swed.

Hewlett-Packard is enabling students from early to tertiary education, including those with special needs, to discover new ways of learning.

Red-shirted protesters hurled plastic bags filled with liters of their own blood into the residence of the Thai prime minister.

The leader of an organized crime gang that operated across the China-Vietnam border was sentenced to 18 years in prison and fined 2.15 million yuan.

Export company Nexus Technologies Inc. pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in a conspiracy to bribe Vietnamese government officials.

Cai luong is struggling to keep its audiences, whose interests in the art form are being lost to modern entertainment in the cradle of its birthplace.

A man who led a major ring that ripped off casinos throughout the U.S of up to $7 million was sentenced to 70 months in prison.

Anti-government protesters started donating their own blood as part of a plan to splatter the government headquarters.

President Barack Obama's second trip to Asia since taking office is unlikely to result in tangible accomplishments.

PM Abhisit Vejjajiva defied the demands of his opponents, telling the country that he would neither resign nor dissolve the House of Representatives.

Thousands of anti-government protesters in Thailand have begun rallying outside on a military base on the outskirts of Bangkok.

Outstanding Vietnamese athletes will be honoured at a ceremony in Hanoi on the evening of March 26.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised Haitians that the world has not forgotten the quake-torn nation.