CULTURE AND SPORT

Striker Van Toan’s hat-trick earned Vietnam another win over Myanmar on September 16, maintaining their winning streak at the ongoing ASEAN U19 Youth Football Championship in Indonesia.

There were no surprises at the Hanoi Vertical Run as reigning champions Thomas Dold and Suzanne Walsham brushed aside challengers to claim first place in the men's and women's professional categories.

The heads of the two top Vietnamese football championships, V-league and First-Division resigned just after the completion of the 2013 football season.

Vietnam has qualified for the semi-finals of the ongoing ASEAN U19 Youth Football Championship in Indonesia, after defeating their hosts 2-1.

The 2013 YxineFF international online short film festival will open in Ho Chi Minh City on September 21.

The Vietnamese national football team climbed three places to 153 rd in the latest FIFA rankings, released on September 12.

Famous singer Trong Tan has submitted his petition to the National Music Academy so that he can leave his teaching job.

Audiences will be given a rare treat with the best performers from Europe and Asia combining for contemporary dance performances to be held in Hanoi from September 25.

Renowned football expert Mike Wong has urged Southeast Asian countries to develop a long term strategic plan if they are to realise ambitions of qualifying the World Cup.

The Do Son buffalo fighting festival in the northern port city of Hai Phong will be recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage on Thursday when the festival takes place.

After being stored for more than 100 years by collectors who thought it was a forgery, a work by Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh has finally been authenticated and unveiled in Amsterdam.

Hundreds of examples of the Ao Dai from Vietnam’s three best known designers were shown at Chambord Castle in France.

Vietnamese badminton star Nguyen Tien Minh failed to defend his title at the Yonex Chinese Taipei Open, which concluded in New Taipei City yesterday.

Indonesia said on Saturday the final of the Miss World pageant later this month would take place on the Hindu-majority holiday island of Bali instead of near the capital, after days of Muslim hardline protests.

World no. 5 Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has advanced to the semi-final of the 2013 Taiwan Open Grand Prix Gold after defeating his Thai opponent Khosit on September 6.

Vietnam Television and CJ E&M of South Korea’s CJ Group have signed a deal for a film project about the lives of overseas students.

He was a spy like no other, respected by both sides, enemy and friend alike. His story, told six years ago in a book by Larry Berman, an American historian, surprised and even shocked the US reading public.

Vietnam’s world No5 badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh defeated his host rival Chih Hsun Yang in the opening game of the 2013 Taiwan Open Grand Prix Gold on September 4.

Composer Nguyen Anh 9, who has made great contributions to the Vietnamese music scene, has decided to leave the stage.