Sport

Top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has moved into the quarter-finals of the 2015 Bahrain International Challenge, according to a post in the Tien Phong Online Newspaper.

The Ministry of Communications and Information has stepped into the on-going fight over exclusive broadcasting rights for English Premiere League in an attempt to halt a bidding war.

Nguyen Quoc Hy tied in the ninth match at the ongoing World Youth and Cadets Chess Championships in Greece.

The sport sector plans a budget of 1,757 billion VND (about 78 million USD) for the organisation of the 2021 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, Tran Duc Phan, deputy head of the National Sports Administration, was quoted as saying in

Rainforest Challenge Vietnam 2015 has kicked off in the southern province of Binh Duong, with 33 domestic and foreign teams participating.

Viet Nam earlier this month, for the second time in four years, was named Golf Destination of the Year for Asia & Australasia by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO).

The Vietnam Professional Football Company appointed a new director and will attempt to overhaul its operations after widespread criticism of the quality of the domestic V-League.

Vietnamese gymnasts will get another chance to book their berth in the Summer Olympics in Brazil, despite their defeat at the world championships in Scotland recently.

The 2016 AFF U-16 Youth Football Championship is set to get underway in Vietnam, as approved by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF), said the Vietnam Football Federation.

Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem (Elo 2,697) was named the overall winner of the 2015 SPICE Cup Open chess tournament after drawing with former Ukrainian champion, Illya Nyzhnyk (Elo 2,628).

Over 500 Vietnamese and international runners are expected to take part in the first Laguna Lang Co Marathon races on October 24-25.

Thailand beat Viet Nam 3-0 to lead the group F in the 2018 FIFA World Cup/2019 AFC Asian Cup joint-qualifiers at Ha Noi's My Dinh Stadium yesterday.

Viet Nam's coach Toshyia Miura wants his team to beat Thailand by at least one goal when the two meet in the 2018 World Cup qualification round tonight in Ha Noi.

Vietnam's top female swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien won a gold medal and broke the CISM Military World Games' record in the women's 200 medley final in South Korea.

Toshyia Miura rightly said that he planned to lock Iraq's players in their Group F match of the World Cup qualification round, Asia zone, yesterday, in Ha Noi.

Swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien bagged the first bronze medal for the Vietnamese sport delegation at the World Military Games 2015 taking place in the Republic of Korea.

Vietnamese swimmers lived up to expectations, amassing 15 gold medals at the 8th Asian Age Swimming Championship, which finished in Bangkok, Thailand.

Vietnam came one step closer to securing a place in the 2016 AFC U-19 Championships finals after narrowly defeating Timor Leste with a score of 2-1 in their third Group G qualifying match at Thuwunna Stadium in Myanmar’s capital

About 1,500 people will take part in the final round of the 42nd annual Ha Noi Moi Run Tournament on October 4 at Ha Noi's Sword Lake.