CULTURE AND SPORT

Vietnam will play a game of pride against China in the last group C match at the Asian Football Confederation U19 Championship in Yangon, Myanmar, on October 13.

Children's innocent eyes and mothers breast-feeding their babies are among the touching images in a photography exhibition at the Vietnamese Women's Museum in Hanoi.

The American pop star Kelly Clarkson will perform during the final night of Miss Vietnam 2014 on December 6 on Phu Quoc Island.

Vietnam ’s U19 football team got off to a bad start at the Asian Football Confederation’s U19 Championship in Myanmar, losing 0-6 to the Republic of Korea (RoK) on October 9.

Vietnam’s chess star, Le Quang Liem, playing for the Webster University chess team, will be competing in the US$1 million Millionaire Chess Open – the highest stakes open chess tournament in history – to be held in Las Vegas

President Truong Tan Sang received a delegation of international artists on October 8, who will perform in the Asia-Europe New Music Festival, the first of its kind in Vietnam.

Coach Guillaume Graechen confirmed that the U19 team is determined to be part of the U20 World Cup at the press conference before the 2014 AFC U-19 Championship.

Vietnam will participate in the International Futsal Grand Prix to be held in the city of Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, from November 11 to 16.

A Vietnam delegation will join 42 countries and territories participating in the second Asian Para Games scheduled for October 18-24 in Incheon, the Republic of Korea.

An exhibition casting the spotlight on the economic, cultural and societal achievements of the capital city over the past 60 years has opened in Hanoi and runs until October 12.

Vietnam’s Karateka Nguyen Thanh Duy clinched a bronze medal at the ongoing Asian Games (ASIAD 17) in the Republic of Korea on October 3.

The Vietnam U19 football squad is just about to depart for Myanmar to compete in the 2014 U19 Asian Football Championship (AFC) taking place from October 9 to 23.

The Asia-Europe New Music Festival 2014 is scheduled to take place from Oct. 8-12 in Hanoi and Ha Long city for the first time with the participation of 200 local and international composers and artists from 30 countries and territories.

Nguyen Hoang Ngan, the Vietnamese queen of kata (performance), earned a silver medal at the 17th Asian Games (ASIAD 17) in Incheon, the Republic of Korea, on October 2.

Three Vietnamese women were fined and banned from any type of public performance for attending at overseas beauty and model contests without licenses.

FIDE master Nguyen Anh Khoi of Vietnam beat Russian player Andrey Esipenko on September 29, taking the trophy of the U12 World Chess Championships in Durban, South Africa.

The Miss Vietnam 2014 pageant has just kicked off with several promising candidates.

Cyclist Nguyen Thi That bagged a silver medal in the women’s cycling road race on September 29 at the ongoing Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea.

An exhibition of paper horses that convey the relationship between the French and the Vietnamese people, and the bilateral cultural exchange will open tomorrow in Hanoi.