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A women's AFC Champions League will be launched in 2023, Asia's football governing body has told AFP, with the new international club tournament aiming to increase the strength of the female game across the continent.

A total of 20 Vietnamese athletes who are due to compete in the upcoming 2021 Tokyo Olympics were vaccinated against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on March 30 at the 108 Military Central Hospital.

In a South Korean rice field, the teenage world drone-racing champion is preparing to defend his title in one of the planet's fastest and highest-tech sports.

Midfielder Ngo Hoang Thinh of Ho Chi Minh City Football Club has been suspended for the remainder of this year following his horrendous two-footed tackle on Hanoi Football Club's Do Hung Dung in a V. League game on Tuesday.

When the Tokyo Olympics torch relay kicks off in Fukushima on Thursday, runners are hoping it will show the world the area is no "nuclear wasteland", a decade after the 2011 disaster.

Olympic organisers meet Saturday for talks expected to bar overseas fans from this summer's pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games, in a bid to reduce virus risks and win over a sceptical public.

The second virtual conference to discuss preparations for the organisation of the International Army Games in 2021 has just been held across 13 venues.

The administration of Hanoi remains highly determined to successfully host the 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and the 11th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Para Games later this year.

Three local marksmen are set to fly to India on March 16 evening to participate in the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup.

Leading Vietnamese footballer Nguyen Quang Hai has been put forward to compete in the category for the best central midfielders in the AFC Cup’s All-time XI, as nominated by the Asian Football Confederation.

Leading Vietnamese footballer Quang Hai has been put forward to competein the category for the best central midfielders in the AFC Cup’s All-time XI, as nominated by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has officially chosen the United Arab Emirates as host of Group G's second round of World Cup 2022 qualifiers.

Four of the five rescheduled Round 3 matches will take place with spectators in the stands as V.League 1-2021 resumes this weekend after nearly two months of suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 75 percent of Japanese oppose overseas fans attending the Tokyo Olympics, a poll showed Monday, as organisers prepare to make a decision on foreign spectators.

Vietnam will face Indonesia on June 7, Malaysia on June 11 and the United Arab Emirates on June 15 at the Asian Qualifiers of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, instead of meeting Malaysia first as the old schedule,

As one of the nation’s representatives in the 2021 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup, Saigon FC will play their fixtures in the group stage of the competition in Singapore between June 22 and June 28.

V.League 1-2021, the nation’s top-tier football league, will resume next month with five rescheduled Round 3 matches, as announced by the Vietnam Professional Football Company (VPF) on February 26.

Chief coach Park Hang-seo’s players are due to meet up in May for extensive training ahead of their remaining fixtures of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, Asian region, according to the Vietnam Football Federation.

Japan's Naomi Osaka will take her perfect record in Grand Slam deciders into the Australian Open final on Saturday, where she will attempt to make it four out of four at the expense of America's Jennifer Brady.