CULTURE AND SPORT

The success of the papaya extract in acting on cancer without toxicity is consistent with reports from indigenous populations in Australia and Vietnam.

Vietnamese athlete Doan Thi Huong Giang won a bronze medal on March 8 in the women’s 52 kg category at the World Youth Taekwondo Championship.

Cosmopolitan Magazine of Vietnam will release its first edition on March 15, 2010.

Buiret, a 3-member rock band from South Korea, will rock HCM City on the evening of March 19.

The Ascending Dragon Music Festival will kick off this week in Hanoi.

Eight journalists have been kidnapped in a Mexican border city in a two-week span in a wave of abductions unprecedented in the Western Hemisphere.

Officer said he smelled burning brakes when he caught up with the Prius.

There are restaurants serving Vietnam's iconic soup in all 50 states of the U.S.

The film “Choi voi” (Adrift) , directed by Bui Thac Chuyen, has won the Bronze Taiga at the 8th international film festival in Khanty-Mansiysk city, Russia.

Seven people have been arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad, police say.

A California Highway Patrol officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop on Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County freeway

In an event at the White House on Monday, President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle marked International Women's Day.

A man who smuggled songbirds into Los Angeles from Vietnam by hiding them in his pants had his sentencing postponed.

Samsung announced that the first models of its full HD 3D entertainment products will be gradually introduced to consumers in Southeast Asia and Oceania from this month.

The death toll from a 6.0-magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Turkey on Monday reached 57.

Bringing an end to a tense and suspenseful night, "The Hurt Locker" captured the best picture prize at the 82nd Academy Awards.

According to Betty Nguyen herself via her twitter account she is leaving cable news giant CNN for broadcast television network CBS.

Armed robbers have stormed a luxury hotel in central Berlin where a poker tournament was taking place, German police say.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday called for closer economic ties with Kiev while meeting with Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych in Moscow.