CULTURE AND SPORT

Phan Thi Ha Thanh became the first Vietnamese gymnast to win an Asian gold medal after her successful performance at the Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships yesterday in Fujian Province, China.

Singer Dam Vinh Hung may be punished for a light-hearted situation in which he kissed two monks at a recent charity event.

Roger Federer insists his dramatic defeat against Novak Djokovic in the final of the ATP Tour Finals was exactly the kind of epic showdown that stops him thinking about retiring.

Vietnam's fencers won two gold medals out of two on the first day of the Southeast Asia Fencing Federation's Championship at Phan Dinh Phung Gymnasium yesterday.

2012 Extreme Sports Day in Hanoi took place on November 11, attracting nearly 60 young competitors.

The Vietnam Cinematography Department announced the list of 14 films to compete at the second Hanoi International Film Festival (Haniff) to be held from November 25 to 29.

Vietnamese dance music has taken its first strides into the international arena after the inclusion of the Thai Phan produced trance hit on the Global Trance Sessions Vol. 3 compilation.

The Indochina Australian Rules Football Cup will open in Hanoi on November 11.

Local film experts have revealed plans to adapt some of Vietnam’s most famous novels into TV series.

The U19 Vietnamese football team was again beaten by Jordan in its last group match of the Asian Football Confederation U19 Championships on November 8.

A photo exhibition on the lives and loves of gay and lesbian people in Vietnam will be held for the first time in Hanoi.

Holding a ty ba delicately in his hands like an angel with a harp, Swedish artist Stefan Ostersjo slowly turns his body in an elegant female fashion.

Vietnam will play host to the 2019 Asian Games, the Olympic Council of Asia announced at its plenary session in Macao.

The national men’s football squad has advanced two positions to 138th in the latest November rankings of the International Federation of Association Football.

MU became the third side to reach the knockout stage of the Champions League after a come from behind 3-1 win over Braga.

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea defeated Vietnam 5-0 in its second match of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-19 Championships.

Films depicting the history of Vietnamese dynasties have been condemned for their poor quality at a conference on historical figures in Vietnamese movies.

Tourism contributes around 5% to the country’s GDP, but the industry is lagging far behind in this field and has hardly invested soundly in it.

Hoang Thanh Trang, formerly of Vietnam, will compete in the Women's World Chess Championships 2012 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from November 9 to December 3.