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Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly at his first meet in eight months Thursday night, beginning his push to compete at a fifth Olympics next year.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) yesterday decided to ban six players for life from V.League 1 club Dong Nai FC for match fixing.

Vietnam will play against arch-rival Thailand during the upcoming 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore this June.

Vietnam is in Group F after the second round draw took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on April 14, twenty-eight days after the opening round of Asian qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia.

Phan Hai Bang, an art instructor at the Hue University of Art, has resurrected the ancient art of making bamboo paper that he hopes will weave a brighter future for Hue artisans.

A top Danish badminton player who was approached to fix matches told AFP that "no tournament is safe" from corruption and said he was sure some events were being rigged.

Vietnam’s tennis star Ly Hoang Nam is just one step away from the boys’ singles title at the 2015 Asian Closed Junior Championships (Grade B1) after rolling past Japanese Yosuke Watanuki 2-0 on Friday morning to secure a berth

Vietnam’s team have won 9 medals, including one gold and six silvers, during the first 7 competition days at the World Junior Weightlifting Championship in Peru, which will end on April 12.

Vietnam has jumped five places in April's FIFA rankings compared with March, standing at 125th worldwide and topping Southeast Asia.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) is to rally U23 football squad on May 5 to prepare for SEA Games 28 and the national football squad on May 17 for World Cup 2018.

Vietnamese gymnasts have won two silver and two bronze medals at the Suzuki World Cup 2015, held in Tokyo, Japan.

Coach Toshiya Miura is confident Vietnam’s national football team can win gold at the coming SEA Games in Singapore.

Vietnam secured 12 gold, 4 silver and 9 bronze medals to rank first at the fourth Southeast Asia Karatedo championship which has wrapped up in Vientiane, Laos.

Vietnamese weightlifters will take part in the 2015 IWF Youth World Championships that will begin in Lima, Peru, on April 6.

The central city will hold the Danang International Marathon 2015 on August 30, the city's culture and society department official Hoang Son Tra has said.

Vietnam's Grandmaster Le Quang Liem has jumped 13 spots to 52nd in the world rankings.

Vietnam has applied to host the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) in 2021, two year's earlier than had been planned.

Vietnamese athletes have won 140 medals, including 62 gold, 43 silver and 35 bronze, in 25 international tournaments during the first three months of this year, said the General Department of Sports and Physical Training.

Viet Nam's Ly Hoang Nam continued with his winning streak at the Indonesia F1 Futures tennis tournament, easy defeating host player Anthony Susanto 6-3, 6-1 yesterday in Tarakan City.