CULTURE AND SPORT

Pham Thanh Luong, a midfielder of Hanoi FC (previously Hanoi T&T), was named as winner of the 2016 Vietnamese Golden Ball at an awards gala in Ho Chi Minh City.

The International Football Federation (FIFA) ran an article entitled “World Cup successes inspire ambitious Vietnam” on its website on January 2 to honour the historic World Cup achievements that the Southeast Asian country attained in 2016.

The HCMC Peace and Development Foundation and Pulse Active will host the HCMC Run – The City Marathon 2017to support to people with disabilities and Agent Orange Survivors on January 14-15 in District 7, HCMC.

The Hanoi Buffaloes will take part in the Thailand Basketball Super League, which kicks off on January 7.

The Vietnam Football Federation has been fined USD38,000 after local football fans threw stones through the windows of a bus carrying the Indonesian football squad to their hotel in Hanoi earlier this month.

As many as 300 outstanding artworks reflecting typical characteristics and styles by over 160 artists across the nation will be presented at the Domino Art Fair 2017, the largest of its kind ever.

Quang Nam will host the 2017 RS: One World Championships, the sixth of its kind and Vietnam Open Windsurfing Race during Quang Nam Heritage Festival next year, according to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

World football governing body FIFA has ranked Vietnam at No 32 in the women’s category.

The first Snow Festival opened in Sapa town in the northern province of Lao Cai as an event to celebrate Christmas Day and New Year 2017.

Vietnam’s national men’s football team ranks 134th in the latest FIFA rankings recently released.

Famous composer Nguyen Quoc Trung has just called on local artists to boycott comedian Minh Beo who has just returned to Vietnam after serving nine months in jail in the US for child sexual assault.

Vietnam won the men’s team title at the Southeast Asia Table Tennis Championships 2016 in Indonesia on December 21.

50 lacquer, oil and acrylic paintings are being displayed at the exhibition of artist Van Duong Thanh to welcome the lunar year of rooster.

Hoàng Thu Thảo won the best national costume award and was among the top 10 at Miss Tourism International 2016, which was held on December 18 in Shanghai, China.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Culture is producing two documentaries aimed at advertising domestic tourism following the ministry’s tourism advertising through cinema project.

As 2016 draws to a close, DTiNews picks out the most outstanding sports events of the year.

US singer-songwriter Richard Marx will perform at the Christmas Concert 2016 in Hanoi today, December 19, alongside Vietnamese singers.

Midfielder Luong Xuan Truong is on top of an ongoing poll by goal.com voting for the best player of the ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cup.

Monday nights feel like Saturdays in Rio's Little Africa neighborhood when the sun sets and the samba starts to play.