CULTURE AND SPORT

Members of the Vietnamese national handball team flew to Thailand on February 3 to participate in the Southeast Asian Handball Championships, scheduled to take place from February 4 to 12.

Taiwanese star Barbie Hsu, who was hugely popular across Asia for her leading role in the 2001 television drama "Meteor Garden", has died from a respiratory illness, local media reported Monday.

Vietnam has moved up two positions to the 47th on the latest global beauty rankings of Missosology, the world’s leading publication on beauty pageants.

A humanoid robot gyrates to pulsing music at a shopping mall in Beijing, part of an exhibition harnessing artificial intelligence to enhance the flavour of China's biggest annual festival.

The Vietnamese national cycling team are set to travel to Thailand to compete in the 2025 Asian Road Cycling Championships, taking place from February 7 to 16.

Thousands of people flocked to the Tay Ho Temple in Hanoi on Wednesday, the first day of the 2025 Lunar New Year.

A stampede at the world's largest religious gathering in India killed at least 15 people with many more injured, a doctor at the Kumbh Mela festival told AFP Wednesday.

A regulation that only U22 players are used for men's football at the 33rd Southeast Asian has been approved at recent meeting of the Football Association of Thailand.

The rage room service in Hanoi provides a space for people, particularly the young, to relieve stress.

The national cycling team will fly to Thailand to vie for titles at the 2025 Asian Road Cycling Championships, scheduled to take place from February 7 to 16.

A series of activities celebrating the Lunar New Year (Tet) is being held at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Hanoi.

PM Pham Minh Chinh attended Homeland Spring 2025, a programme for overseas Vietnamese in the lead-up to the Lunar New Year, in Prague on January 19, as part of his ongoing visit to the Czech Republic.

The 2025 spring calligraphy festival is scheduled to take place from January 23 to February 9 inside the Temple of Literature in Hanoi to celebrate the Lunar New Year 2025 (Tet).

Vietnam has the third largest number of FIFA-accredited referees in Southeast Asia after Thailand and Malaysia, according to ASEAN Football, the official website of the ASEAN Football Federation.

Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India began bathing in sacred waters on Monday as the Kumbh Mela festival opened, with organisers expecting 400 million people -- the largest gathering of humanity.

HCM City will organise fireworks displays at 15 locations to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year.

Water puppetry artists will bring special performances to the 45th spring flower festival which will be held at Tao Dan Park in HCM City to welcome in the Lunar Tet New Year, for the first time.

The Danang International Fireworks Festival (DIFF) 2025 will take place from May 31 to July 12 under the theme Danang - The New Rising Era.

The Vietnam national football team was rewarded with huge bonuses following their victory in the 2024 ASEAN Cup final.