Last updated: Friday, December 16, 2011
Gymnast Phan Thi Ha Thanh will be nominated for the Labor Award, third class, for some glorious performances at last month’s SEA Games in Indonesia
Six athletes will be nominated for the Labor Award, third class, for their outstanding performances at the Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia last month, a sports official...
Last updated: Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Boxer Luong Van Toan (2nd, R) won the gold medal in the men's 81kg event.
Winning nine gold medals on Monday helped to keep Vietnam in third place at the South East Asian Games being held November 11-22. Vietnam is ranked behind top-place host Indonesia and Thailand.
The nine golds were grabbed by Vietnamese competitors...
Last updated: Saturday, November 19, 2011
Vietnamese athletes earned 12 gold medals at the SEA Games on Wednesday, raising the total to 56 golds and jumping to second place behind hosts Indonesia.
The 12 gold medals on Wednesday came in swimming, billiards, vovinam, free style wrestling, shooting, chess and rowing.
Billiards player Ma Minh Cam closed...
Last updated: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
21-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc (C) at the podium after finishing first in the women’s 20km walk; Photo by Kha Hoa.
With 11 gold medals on Sunday, Vietnam has won a total of 17 gold medals after two days at the 26th South East Asian Games in Indonesia.
Twenty-one-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc won the first gold on the...
Last updated: Saturday, August 6, 2011
Chilean ex-miners carry a portable platform with a religious image during a ceremony in Copiapo, 700 kms north of Santiago, to commemorate the first anniversary of the mining accident which left 33 miners buried in the shafts for 68 days
Miners who were trapped underground for over two months led Chile Friday in marking the...
Last updated: Thursday, August 19, 2010
VietNamNet Bridge – Taekwondo athletes Nguyen Thanh Thao and Nguyen Quoc Cuong won a silver and a bronze medal for Vietnam at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore on August 17.
Weigh-lifter Kim Tuan wins gold medal at Young Olympic Games
VN athletes head to Singapore
Taekwondo artist Nguyen Thanh Thao
Thao...
Last updated: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
VietNamNet Bridge – Taekwondo athletes Nguyen Thanh Thao and Nguyen Quoc Cuong won a silver and a bronze medal for Vietnam at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore on August 17.
Weigh-lifter Kim Tuan wins gold medal at Young Olympic Games
VN athletes head to Singapore
Taekwondo artist Nguyen Thanh Thao
Thao...
Last updated: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
VietNamNet Bridge – Taekwondo athletes Nguyen Thanh Thao and Nguyen Quoc Cuong won a silver and a bronze medal for Vietnam at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore on August 17.
Weigh-lifter Kim Tuan wins gold medal at Young Olympic Games
VN athletes head to Singapore
Taekwondo artist Nguyen Thanh Thao
Thao...
Last updated: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Vietnam attends Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games; Tien Minh seeded seventh at World Badminton Champs; Vietnamese wins gold at Young Asian Karate Champs
Vietnam attends Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games A Vietnamese sports delegation led by Hoang Manh Cuong, deputy head of the High Achievements Sports Department, arrived...
Last updated: Thursday, March 11, 2010
Hard years of making a living by collecting waste didn’t hinder Nguyen Dinh Toan’s strong will, instead it helped him become world taekwondo champion.
Nguyen Dinh Toan (middle) and his team. Toan’s father, Nguyen Dinh Hoan, was born by a Vietnamese mother and a Russian father nad then left to be nurtured at the Hanoi...
