CULTURE AND SPORT

The second Vietnam International Choral Festival & Competition has opened in Hue City with the participation of 640 artists.

The “ACD Tour of Vietnam”, the country’s first bicycle race under the International Cycling Union system, will be held for the first time from December 16-22.

Vietnam's Xiangqi (Chinese chess) team will compete in the SportAccord World Mind Games which kick off today in Beijing, China.

Sixty-two photos depicting the Mine Advisory Group's activities to clear unexploded ordnance in Vietnam are on display in HCM City.

Saigon XT Football Club may close if main financial backer Nguyen Duc Thuy grows bored of subsidising the team.

South Korean film producers highlighted various difficulties facing Vietnam and S. Korea in film collaboration.

Young composers are proving some long-held assumptions wrong by writing and selling songs and music for film soundtracks.

Vietnamese athletes won four silver and two bronze medals at the 7th World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships.

V-League 2013 will begin on March 3 with 12 teams, two less than last year, said the Vietnam Professional Football Company.

Vietnamese belly dancers have won one gold medal and two silver medals at the Asia-Pacific competition in Hong Kong.

FIFA has decided to provide the Vietnam Football Federation with 500,000 USD for training new under-15 talents following the success of the Goal Project in Vietnam, the VFF Chairman said.

Lionel Messi broke Gerd Mueller's 40-year-old record for the most goals in a calendar year on Sunday.

The Top Model Online competition has officially opened, kick-starting Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2013—the country’s fourth iteration of the series.

Italian jazz artists Giuliana Soscia and Pino Jodice Duet will perform alongside famous Vietnamese saxophonist Quyen Thien Dac in a concert at Hanoi Opera House on December 10.

As many as 163 athletes will attend the 16th Asian Petanque Championship, to be held for the first time in Hanoi from December 12-16.

V-League Champions SHB Danang will take on archrilvals at the 2013 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup.

The Vietnam Football Federation has accepted the resignation of national team head coach Phan Thanh Hung after its dismal performance at the ongoing AFF Cup.

Vietnam Fashion Week will kick off at the Hanoi Daewoo Hotel on December 6, with a taste of 19 collections by veterans and emerging designers to be shown during the week.

An international gastronomy festival featuring the cuisine of 25 countries and territories will take place next week in HCM City, said one official.