CULTURE AND SPORT

Have you ever attended a pig race like the one held regularly in Cần Thơ City?

Authorities in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien will implement a plan to promote the recognition of xoe Thai dance as a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

The Vietnam men’s national football team has climbed one place from 100th to 99th in the latest FIFA rankings thanks to their excellent results at the Asian Cup 2019, according to the website Footy Rankings.

Nearly 500 artefacts recovered from sunken vessels dating from the 15th to 18th century are being displayed at the Vietnam National Museum of History.

A Vietnamese comedy being shown in cinemas nationwide during Tết (the Lunar New Year) holiday is expected to do well at the box office.

Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem recently got 7 points after 10 matches, a performance which placed him sixth on the rankings at Gibraltar Masters Chess Festival 2019 and receiving a bonus of US$2,200 in prize money.

A springtime festival, themed “Colours of spring from every corner of the country”, will be held from February 12 to 13 (the eighth to ninth day of the first lunar month) at the Vietnamese Ethnic Groups Culture-Tourism Village in

Miss Universe Vietnam 2017 H'Hen Nie has been named among Top 10 Miss Grand Slam as announced by Global Beauties.

Celebrations were set to go on all weekend in Doha as thousands of jubilant Qataris took to the streets within minutes of the country's astonishing Asian Cup final victory Friday.

“The Parting of the Plastic Sea” art piece in the atrium of the Estella Place retail mall in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2 is being showcased in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest

Overcoming 112 beauties, Vietnam representative H'Hen Nie has won the Missosology Timeless Beauty 2018 award.

United Arab Emirates fans vented their anger on Tuesday as they slumped to an embarrassing Asian Cup defeat by bitter Gulf rivals Qatar -- in a blizzard of shoes, boos and water bottles.

Park Hang Seo will coach Vietnam’s U22 football team at the SEA Games 30 scheduled to take place in the Philippines later this year.

The custom of erecting a bamboo pole, or a Neu tree, to drive away evils and pray for good luck for the New Year has been held in the Hue Royal Citadel on January 28.

An exhibition on the pig, the zodiac animal for the lunar year of 2019, is on display at the Vietnam Women’s Museum in Hanoi until February 19.

Japan cashed in on a defensive mix-up and a controversial penalty as they stunned favourites Iran 3-0 in the Asian Cup semi-finals to move one win away from their fifth title on Monday.

Goalkeeper Dang Van Lam has said goodbye to Haiphong Football Club to join Thailand’s Muangthong United.

The first Vietnam Memory Championships 2019 will begin with the preliminary selection round on April 20, announced the Vietnam Records Organization (Vietkings).

H’Hen Nie has been named among the Top 5 finalists of the Timeless Beauty award by Missosology and becomes the only Vietnamese representative to make it through into the award’s final stage.