CULTURE AND SPORT

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and the education and training ministry signed an agreement on June 18 to expand the Football for All in Vietnam (FFAV) programme.

Yet again, Vietnamese chess masters were successful in maintaining their 16-year domination of the Southeast Asian region, sweeping away 68 gold, 44 silver and 29 bronze medals at the 16th ASEAN+ Age-Group Chess Championships.

The Vietnamese film “Quyen”, also known as “Farewell to the Berlin Wall”, was well received by German audiences after its debut at the Kino International cinema in Berlin on June 16.

Singaporean New Paper on June 17 chose Anh Viet one of the best foreign athletes and the sole one who made a similar splash at the OCBC Aquatic Centre as the host athlete Joseph Schooling.

A pointless battle over copyright permission to use songs by composer Vu Thanh An seemingly came to a close at a press conference on Monday.

Islamic Cham ethnic people in the central province of Binh Thuan on June 16 kicked off a wide range of activities to welcome their Ramuwan (New Year) festival, the biggest of its kind of the local Islamic community.

Vietnam brought only 382 athletes to the 28th Southeast Asian Games 2015 in Singapore but won 73 gold medals, 53 silvers and 60 bronzes to finish the region’s biggest sports festival in the top three for the seventh time.

Musicians from Vietnam, the US and the region will gather for a music festival and a lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender (LGBT) pride event in Hanoi on Saturday.

Vietnam won one more silver and three bronze medals to affirm the third place in medal tally at the Southeast Asian Games in Singapore yesterday.

Vietnamese youth in the Czech Republic performed in the first music festival on June 14 in Prague; a chance for the second and third generations of the Vietnamese community in the country to meet and exchange.

Vietnam won eight gold medals yesterday and ensured their target of being in the top three at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Singapore.

"Following in one's father's footsteps, in addition to having an inborn talent, is still not enough for pursuing tuong (classical drama) of Hue. To pursue the art, hot and fierce passion is needed," artist La Hung said.

Vietnam has so far taken 61 gold medals at the ongoing 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore after athletics, shooting and taekwondo added to the pile.

Do Thi Thao and Duong Van Thai completed their doubles, while the quartet runner broke a 24-year-old record in the women's 4x400m relay.

Art troupes in HCM City are asking the HCM City authority to invest in upgrading and building theatres to meet audiences' demand.

Vietnam have the most successful day at the ongoing 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore, racking up 15 gold medals, seven silvers and six bronzes to move up to second place in the medal tally.

Selected documentaries from Vietnam and Europe will be screened at an annual documentary film festival in Hanoi.

Swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien continued her impressive performance at the ongoing 28th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 28) in Singapore on June 9 with a new record in the women’s 200m butterfly.

Noted Italian photographer Luca Bracali has just kicked off his eight-day journey across Viet Nam on a Vespa motorbike.