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Shorinji Kempo martial artists great fighters 

November 22, 2011
Shorinji Kempo martial artists great fighters 

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 [...]

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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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Dong Nai hosts big rivals at national bodybuilding contest 

June 4, 2011

  Bodybuilders from the southern province of Dong Nai are flexing their muscles against their peers from 22 clubs nationwide at the 2011 National Bodybuilding Competition that got underway on June 1. At last year’s edition of the event in the central city of Da Nang, the bodybuilders from An Giang Province finished on top [...]

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Vietnam wins one bronze at world taekwondo championships 

May 9, 2011
Vietnam wins one bronze at world taekwondo championships 

  Vietnam had to rest content with just one bronze medal at the 2011 world taekwondo championships in Gyeongju, South Korea after Le Huynh Chau won it in the men’s under-63kg  event on Friday. Chau lost to Britain’s Paul Michael Harvey while Thailand’s Nacha Punthong lost to the host’s Lee Dae Koon in the other [...]

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Vietnam finishes Asian Games in 24th spot 

November 30, 2010
Vietnam finishes Asian Games in 24th spot 

  Vietnam finished out the 2010 Asian Games last Saturday in China with one gold, 17 silver and 15 bronze medals. The only gold medal was won the martial artist Le Bich Phuong in the women karatedo’s under-55 kilogram category. Vietnam failed to reach the goal of winning 4-6 gold medals to be among the [...]

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Women win first track-and-field medals at Asian Games 

November 30, 2010
Women win first track-and-field medals at Asian Games 

Truong Thanh Hang celebrates after winning silver in the women's 1,500m final on November 23. Female athletes Truong Thanh Hang and Vu Thi Huong won the Vietnam’s first ever silver and bronze medals at Asian Games for track-and-field events. Southeast Asian 1,500m and 800m champion Truong Thanh Hang took the silver medal in the women’s [...]

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Phuong takes first gold for Vietnam 

November 30, 2010
Phuong takes first gold for Vietnam 

  Le Bich Phuong beat World Champion Kobayashi Miki in the women’s 55kg Karatedo finals, on Thursday. Her victory represent’s Vietnam’s first gold medal at the Asian Games 2010 in Guangzhou, China. The Vietnamese martial artist sailed through the previous rounds before defeating her Japanese rival, Kobayashi, 4-3. Also in the Karatedo event, martial artist [...]

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Vietnam takes silver in team rowing contest 

November 27, 2010
Vietnam takes silver in team rowing contest 

  Vietnam won the silver medal in the four-women, two-oar rowing category on Friday morning at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. The women’s team (Dang Thi Tham, Dang Thi Hanh, Nguyen Thi Huu and Tran Thi Sam) came in second behind China. Iran came in third to take the bronze. Earlier on Thursday, [...]

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Huong takes bronze in women’s 100m at Asian Games 

November 26, 2010
Huong takes bronze in women’s 100m at Asian Games 

  Vietnam’s sprint queen Vu Thi Huong won the bronze medal in the women’s 100 meter race at the 16th Asian Games 2010 in Guangzhou, China on Monday. Huong, Southeast Asian champion in the 100m and 200m categories, finished Third—11 seconds 43 behind champion Fukushima Chisato of Japan (11 seconds 33) and silver medalist Khubbieva [...]

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Bronze drums getting ready for Hanoi 1,000th birthday

December 29, 2009
Bronze drums getting ready for Hanoi 1,000th birthday

The first of 100 bronze kettledrums created by artisans in Thanh Hoa Province Bronze artisans in the north central province of Thanh Hoa have begun to make 100 kettledrums for the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, scheduled to be held next December. Ninety nine of them will be 60 cm across and 48 cm high, [...]

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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...