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Do Hong Ngoc (R) fights Yunita of Indonesia before winning the gold in the women's under-48kg kempo event on Sunday. Photo by Bach Duong. Vietnamese competitors in the Japanese martial art of shorinji kempo won three golds out of the seven possible on Sunday at the South East Asian Games in Indonesia. Do Hong Ngoc grabbed...

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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...

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  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...

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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...

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Vietnamese boxer Luu Thi Duyen wins the women’s 57kg gold at the President's Cup in Jakarta. Vietnamese boxers have returned home from the President’s Cup in Jakarta, Indonesia, carrying five medals, including two golds. The 21st annual contest ended Friday July 8 with two silvers and one bronze also in Vietnamese...

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  Southeast Asian medium distance champion Truong Thanh Hang and other Vietnamese athletes left Tuesday for the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan which will last from July 7-10. All hopes for a medal are pinned on Thanh Hang, a hard-working girl who was born in the Year of the Tiger. Despite...

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  Vietnamese women lured to be surrogate mothers in Thailand A Vietnamese surrogate mother taken from a hospital to the Kretrakarn Home, a center for trafficked returnees in Bangkok When an acquaintance told 19-year-old P. of Bac Lieu Province in the Mekong Delta last year that she...

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In a file picture taken on February 24 Thai immigration policemen (R) investigate Vietnamese women who were allegedly lured into becoming surrogate mothers, at the Immigration Police Bureau in Bangkok The Mekong Delta families whose daughters became surrogate mothers in Thailand believe their daughters are working in Ho Chi...

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  Thai police and several non-governmental organizations have rescued 15 Vietnamese women who claimed they had been tricked into working as surrogate mothers.   The women, who are 30 years old on average, were discovered during a police raid in Bangkok Wednesday.   The raid of the 101 Babies...

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Vietnamese martial artists Nguyen Trong Cuong and Luong Minh Dat snatched two gold medals in the men’s Taekwondo event at the ongoing SEA Games in Laos yesterday. Three in a row: Nguyen Trong Cuong poses with his gold medal and a SEA Games mascot after winning the men’s 80kg taekwondo final yesterday in Vientiane. It is his...

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