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Vietnamese shooter wins Olympic berth 

January 19, 2012
Vietnamese shooter wins Olympic berth 

  Hoang Xuan Vinh has become the first ever Vietnamese shooter to win an official Olympics berth. Vinh won 682.4 points in the men’s 10-meter air gun event on Monday at the January 11-22 Asian Shooting Championships in Doha, Qatar. Vinh finished fourth behind the gold medal winner from South Korea, Jin Jong Oh with [...]

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Accidents waiting to happen 

September 23, 2011
Accidents waiting to happen 

  Mafia-esque bus transportation system a no-holds-barred race fraught with risk Buses wait to pick up passengers on the road outside the Giap Bat Bus Station in Hanoi It took 30 minutes for the bus to travel just one kilometer as it inched its way out of the My Dinh Terminal in Hanoi at around [...]

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Vietnam books semifinal berth in regional U19 contest 

September 20, 2011
Vietnam books semifinal berth in regional U19 contest 

  Vietnam has earned a berth in the semifinals of the Under-19 Southeast Asian Football Championship being played in Myanmar as Group B leaders. Hosts Myanmar are also on par with Vietnam with 10 points from three wins and a draw but in second place of the group on goal difference. On Saturday, Group A [...]

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Judo artist Ngoc Tu hopes for Olympic berth 

June 3, 2011
Judo artist Ngoc Tu hopes for Olympic berth 

  Martial artist Van Ngoc Tu will compete at the Judo Grand Slam Moscow 2011 on Saturday May 28 in an effort to win a berth at the 2012 London Olympics. The 24-year old Tu, ranked 45th in the world, won the women’s 48kg category bronze medal at the 2011 Asian Judo Championships in Abu [...]

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V-League champs Da Nang strives for AFC Champions League berth

December 27, 2009
V-League champs Da Nang strives for AFC Champions League berth

LookAtVietnam – V-League champions Da Nang will try to win a berth in the Asian Football Confederation Champions League, club president Bui Xuan Hoa said on Friday.  LookAtVietnam – V-League champions Da Nang will try to win a berth in the Asian Football Confederation Champions League, club president Bui Xuan Hoa said on Friday.  Hoa [...]

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V-League champs Da Nang strives for AFC Champions League berth

December 27, 2009
V-League champs Da Nang strives for AFC Champions League berth

V-League champions Da Nang will try to win a berth in the Asian Football Confederation Champions League, club president Bui Xuan Hoa said on Friday. Hoa made the statement after AFC announced the results of the draw of the AFC Champions League and AFC Cup 2010; and there was a rumor that Da Nang would [...]

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Khanh Hoa, the first qualifier to book U21 tournament spot

August 31, 2009
Khanh Hoa, the first qualifier to book U21 tournament spot

Dinh Hiep’s four goals help Khanh Hoa secure a berth in the national U21 football tournament Khatoco Khanh Hoa has become the first qualifier to book a berth in the Thanh Nien-sponsored U21 National Football Final Tournament after winning all three group matches. With seven footballers who played in V-League this year, the hosts of [...]

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Badminton star Minh eyes Taiwan Open final

August 29, 2009
Badminton star Minh eyes Taiwan Open final

Vietnam’s badminton star Nguyen Tien Minh defeated Indonesian Tommy Sugiarto 2-1 in the YONEX Chinese Taipei Gold Grand Prix quarterfinals Friday and now expects to earn a final berth. The third-seeded Vietnamese, ranked 10th in the world, played confidently to beat the world’s 84th Indonesian 21-19 in the first set.However, Sugiarto fought back fiercely and [...]

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Young Iranian footballers expected to turn the clock back

July 24, 2009
Young Iranian footballers expected to turn the clock back

Iran’s U20 team who won the Thanh Nien-sponsored U21 International Football Tournament in Hue last year Iranian footballers have had some big names on the world stage, especially with two appearances in the World Cup finals. But those where the heydays and Iranian football is no longer the feared regional power it once was. A [...]

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HCMC container port adds new berth

March 17, 2009
HCMC container port adds new berth

Saigon Newport Company, Vietnam’s biggest container port operator, Monday added a new berth to Cat Lai Port in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2. The berth, the port’s seventh and 216 meters long, will increase loading capacity to 350,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), or four million tons of cargo a year.The military-owned company invested VND450 [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...