CULTURE AND SPORT

The Sa Pa Town People's Committee has opened Sa Pa Autumn Festival 2022 under the theme "Sa Pa - Golden season".

The national men’s football team of Vietnam maintains its 97th position in FIFA’s August rankings, according to the Vietnam Football Federation.

Vietnam’s tennis star Ly Hoang Nam has reached a world ranking of No 328, according to the ATP's latest release.

Bao Ngoc, the first runner-up of Miss World Vietnam 2022, will represent the country at the Miss Intercontinental pageant which will take place in Egypt this October.

BridgeFest 2022 - The 6th annual music and community festival will take place at Bien Dong Park in the central city of Danang on Saturday.

The organising board of Miss Universe Vietnam has just been fined VND70 million (USD3,043) for allowing a judge to wear a revealing ao dai in the final night of Miss Universe Vietnam 2022 on June 25.

Vietnamese female football striker Huynh Nhu has just arrived in Portugal to sign a two-year contract with Länk FC.

Vietnamese born Nguyen Minh Khac on August 21 evening beat many other prospective contestants and came in second at Men of the Year 2022, a global beauty contest for men taking place in Bali, Indonesia.

Vietnam will send five athletes to compete in the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating events which will be held in the coming months in Europe.

World champion Magnus Carlsen defeated Vietnam’s leading chess player Le Quang Liem 3-1 on August 18 in the fourth round of the FTX Crypto Cup, the main stage of the Champions Chess Tour.

A documentary entitled “Long Time Passing” featuring a victim of Agent Orange (AO) living in Vietnam will be available in theatres in Tokyo from August 20.

The biennial national beauty contest Miss Vietnam 2022 has now opened for Vietnamese young women aged between 18 and 27.

The Vietnam U20 side players have arrived in Japan after a night flight for a training camp ahead of their Group F qualifying clashes of the 2023 AFC U20 Asian Cup.

FIFA on Thursday officially brought forward the opening match of this year's World Cup by one day to November 20 in a rare change so that hosts Qatar feature in the gala game.

The northern city of Haiphong has decided to resume the Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival after a long suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The World Cup's start will be brought forward by a day to allow hosts Qatar to play the opening game, sources told AFP on Wednesday, just over three months before the competition gets underway.

The Vietnam Football Federation announced Diego Raul Giustozzi, a futsal World Cup winning coach, as the new head coach of the Vietnamese national futsal team at a ceremony held on August 9 in Hanoi.

The finale of Miss World Vietnam 2022 will take place at MerryLand Quy Nhon in Quy Nhon city, the south-central province of Binh Dinh, on August 12 with the competition of 38 beauties.

Vietnamese athletes bagged seven more gold medals on August 5, the last competition day of the ASEAN Para Games 2022, retaining their third place in the medal tally.