CULTURE AND SPORT

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.

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.