CULTURE AND SPORT

Four Vietnamese athletes will take part in the 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Champs, to be held in Hangzhou, China, from February 16-19.

Non-Vietnamese speakers, especially tourists, will have a chance to enjoy Vietnamese cai luong at the Hanoi Theatre of Cai Luong in English.

Tiger Woods returns to the site of two of his most stirring victories when he makes his PGA Tour season debut at the $6.4 million Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

The Vietnamese showbiz industry was warmed up after Tet holiday by several new scandals involving famous performers.

Rumours that one of the Vietnam’s most loved television shows – the Kitchen Gods– may come to an end sparked public dismay.

U19 Vietnam will join 10 other teams from Southeast Asian countries at the 2012 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy to be held at Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei from February 25-March 3.

Vietnam will organise three international chess competitions this year.

Teen boys with superpowers helped lift the movie box office to unexpected heights over Super Bowl weekend as thriller "Chronicle" edged haunted house movie "The Woman in Black."

American jazz vocalist Diane Witherspoon will perform at a five star music lounge in Hanoi starting this February.

Vietnam’s national wrestling team will compete at the Asian Wrestling Championships as part of their preparations for the 2012 London Olympic qualifier.

In drizzle and bitingly cold, 100 male and female wrestlers competed at the Sinh Village Wrestling Festival in Lai An village, Phu Mau commune, Phu Vang district, Thua Thien Hue province.

Vietnam’s Nguyen Hoang Thien and his Hong Kong partner Wong Chun Hun won the men’s doubles event at the U18 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Tournament (Grade 4).

Vietnamese Chess Grandmaster Le Quang Liem completed the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival in the UK ranking 7th after a draw in the final match with Indian rival Negi Parimarjanon.

Vietnamese film "Bi! Don’t Be Afraid" directed by Phan Dang Di is being shown at the second Francophone Film Festival in Paris, France from January 31 to February 7.

A delegation from the Vietnamese People’s Army has participated in the 10th Brunei International Skill-at-Arms.

The Lim Festival scheduled to open this Saturday is expected to reach the national record for the greatest number of people singing Quan Ho (a love duet) and wearing traditional clothes.

Vietnamese chess star Le Quang Liem was Tuesday defeated by China’s number 1 women player Hou Yifan at the 8th round of the 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival in the UK.

Silent movie "The Artist" was given yet another Hollywood award -- though this one not from the Oscars or Golden Globes organisers, but from city fathers in Tinseltown itself.

Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem defeated Israeli rival Tamir Nabaty in the seventh round at the ongoing Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival in the UK.