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Vietnam jumps to second at SEA Games 

November 19, 2011
Vietnam jumps to second at SEA Games 

  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 the day with a [...]

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Xuan Cuong finishes third at Billiards World Cup 

September 10, 2011
Xuan Cuong finishes third at Billiards World Cup 

Xuan Cuong (R) at Billiards World Cup in Suwon, Seoul, Photo by kozoom.com. Vietnamese billiards ace Ma Xuan Cuong finished third at the 2011 carom 3-cushion World Cup in Suwon, Seoul after losing to host player Cho Jae Ho in the semifinals on Sunday. After losing 2-15 to the 19th-ranked Korean in the first set, [...]

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Billiards team aim for all-Vietnamese final

November 30, 2009
Billiards team aim for all-Vietnamese final

An all-Vietnamese final in the men’s one-cushion carom singles event could occur at the 25th Southeast Asia (SEA) Games in Laos in December. Dang Dinh Tien takes a shot during the men’s singles carom 1 final against Japanese player Machida Tadashi at HCM City’s Phan Dinh Phung Gymnasium. Tien won 100-25 to win the gold [...]

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The man who would be king

November 13, 2009

The crown prince of Brunei lost the very first match he played at the third Asian Indoor Games, but it was not for lack of preparation. A month before the AIG billiards & snooker competition officially began on October 31, employees from the Brunei Embassy in Hanoi flew to Ho Chi Minh City to work [...]

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Indoor Games diary

November 10, 2009
Indoor Games diary

Thanks to the three-pronged efforts of the Olympic Council of Asia, Viet Nam Asian Indoor Games Organising Committee and the National Olympic Committee, the third Asian Indoor Games in Viet Nam can be declared a success, OCA honorary life vice president Wei Jizhong said on Saturday.He said that all the problems of the early days [...]

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Lion dancers roar their way to silver

November 4, 2009
Lion dancers roar their way to silver

LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam earned 9.19 points in the nanshi compulsory routine to win silver in the dragon and lion dance at the third Asian Indoor Games. Macau won gold with 9.27 points while Hong Kong took bronze with 9.15.This is the first silver medal in the nanshi event. “I am surprised of this medal [...]

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Hosts pin hopes on pool sharks

October 14, 2009
Hosts pin hopes on pool sharks

As many as 250 athletes including 63 females from 24 countries and territories will compete for 10 sets of medals in billiards and snooker at the third Asian Indoor Games, In the men’s section seven men of medals are up for grabs: individual snooker; team snooker; one-cushion carom; three-cushion carom; English billiards; six red balls; [...]

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Tien determined to grab AIG gold

October 9, 2009
Tien determined to grab AIG gold

LookAtVietnam – The Asian champion Dang Dinh Tien insisted that he would grab a gold medal at the third Asian Indoor Games in Viet Nam later this month. Tien took his championship title after beating Japan’s Machida Tadashi 100-82 in the final last month in South Korea. It is his first continental crown after more [...]

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Masters of the cushion carom

May 30, 2009
Masters of the cushion carom

Dang Dinh Tien of Ho Chi Minh City became the one-cushion carom billiards champion of Vietnam Friday by beating his rival 100-76 in the final of the National Billiards and Snooker Championships 2009. Tien’s victory over Cao Thanh Truc of Binh Dinh Province at Phan Dinh Phung Stadium in HCMC’s District 1 proved the city’s [...]

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SPORTS IN BRIEF 29/5

May 29, 2009
SPORTS IN BRIEF 29/5

Minh to play at Singapore Open; HCM City win third gold at billiards; Dong Nai, Ca Mau top groups; HCM City to host Athletics Tourney; Volleyball team to train in Thailand; Horse racing to begin at Bac Ha Nguyen Tien Minh.Viet Nam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh will compete at the Singapore Open Super [...]

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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...