CULTURE AND SPORT

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has had a working session with a delegation from Japan’s Mimasaka city in Hanoi as part of the programme to boost culture and sports activities towards the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

Vietnam failed to create any surprise against title favourites Japan as they succumbed to a 0-3 defeat at the hands of the team from the “land of the rising sun” in the semifinals of the 2016 AFC Championship in

Miss Grand International 2017 will be held in the three Vietnamese provinces of Quang Binh, Thua Thien-Hue and Kien Giang.

Around 60 plays by artists from over 20 countries have registered to take part in the 3rd International Experimental Theatre Festival, which will be held from November 12-19 in Hanoi.

Việt Nam’s top female swimmer Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên earned a slot in the finals of the 200m medley category in the ongoing FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Japan.

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Duyen, 23, has become the first Vietnamese to bring home the crown from an international beauty pageant after winning Miss Global Beauty Queen 2016 in South Korea.

A total of 55 photo collections featuring the beauty of Vietnam’s land and people are being displayed at an exhibition in Nguyen Van Binh Book Street in Ho Chi Minh City.

A sparkling page was written in the history of Vietnamese football when the country’s U-19 team slipped past Bahrain 1-0 on the night of October 23, making its way through to the semifinals of the 2016 AFC U-19 Championship,

The ASEAN Football Federation has announced that the 13th ASEAN Futsal Championship will be cancelled as no suitable host country is found.

The 2016 Japanese Film Festival is scheduled to take place from October 28 to November 27 in Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City, featuring eight films of different genres.

Vietnamese agencies, including the National Institute of Music, Folk Arts Association of VN and VN Musicians’ Association, are aiming to ally with the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports to propose to UNESCO to recognise dan bau, the nation’s

Việt Nam has jumped to the No.2 position in the Southeast Asian region as per FIFA’s October ranking, which was released on October 20.

The California Management Group, a Vietnam-based lifestyle and entertainment company, has just opened its first franchised UFC Gym in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2.

Vietnam’s U19s secured a place in the quarter-finals of the U19 Asian Cup 2016 for the first time after they drew against Iraq.

Debris of Debris by Vinh Quyen is the first Vietnamese-authored English-language novel written in Vietnam, and has also been published in the UK and in the US.

Veteran German band Scorpions will be special guests at the Monsoon Music Festival 2016 scheduled to take place at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi from October 21 to 23.

Toyota Motor Asia Pacific and Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV), in cooperation with the Vietnam Performing Arts Center at the Department of Performing Arts under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, will hold the Toyota Classics 2016 concert on

Vietnamese representative, Nam Em, has won the silver medal in the Talent Competition of the Miss Earth 2016 by performing an English language song.

The Saigon Sports Club has been opened in Ho Chi Minh City with the aim of training young Vietnamese martial arts professionals.