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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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Hoang Thien advances to singles’, doubles’ finals in Hong Kong 

October 9, 2011
Hoang Thien advances to singles’, doubles’ finals in Hong Kong 

  Vietnam’s number one young tennis star Nguyen Hoang Thien has advanced to the boys’ singles and doubles finals at the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Grade 4 contest in Hong Kong. The 16-year-old Thien, ranked 145th in the world, beat the 292nd-ranked Chinese Li Yuangfeng 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the boys’ semifinals on Friday. Thien [...]

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Vietnam to debut at world badminton contest 

May 31, 2011
Vietnam to debut at world badminton contest 

  Vietnamese badminton players will for the first time compete at the World Mixed Team Championships, called the Sudirman Cup 2011, to be held May 22-29 in China’s Shandong Province. The 33 teams from around the world participating in the 12th edition of the contest are divided into four groups competing in five categories namely [...]

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HCMC tops national table tennis championship 

April 25, 2011

  Ho Chi Minh City players won four gold medals and topped the 2011 National Table Tennis Championships that ended in Hai Duong Province on Friday. After ensuring their team won gold medals in the women’s team and doubles events, Mai Hoang Mai Trang and Tran Huy Bao beat Huy Hoang-Hong Tam of T&T Club [...]

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Thien wins ITF doubles title in New Zealand 

February 18, 2011
Thien wins ITF doubles title in New Zealand 

Nguyen Hoang Thien (R) has won a doubles title in New Zealand Vietnam’s teenage tennis sensation Nguyen Hoang Thien and Australian Jack Schipanshi won the boys’ doubles title at the ITF Junior Grade 4 Under-18 Circuit event in Wellington, New Zealand on Friday. The top-seeded duo of Thien and Schipanski beat Australian pair Bradley Mousley [...]

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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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Champ’s got work cut out at SEA Games

November 12, 2009
Champ’s got work cut out at SEA Games

Viet Nam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh will have the world’s top player, Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei, to overcome to win the gold medal at the 25th SEA Games. Nguyen Tien Minh.The world Number 7, seeded second, faces unseeded Nuan Sophorn of Cambodia in the first round and will probably come up against Lan [...]

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Back-to-back win for Minh at Viet Nam Open

October 12, 2009
Back-to-back win for Minh at Viet Nam Open

LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam’s top male badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh won his second Viet Nam Open title with the bonus of US$3,750 Bird man: Nguyen Tien Minh returns a drop shot from his Malaysian opponent Chong Wei Feng in the men’s singles final on October 11. Minh won 21-7, 19-21, 21-14 to clinch the [...]

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SPORTS IN BRIEF 8/10

October 8, 2009
SPORTS IN BRIEF 8/10

Vietnamese sprinter seeks Games glory; International badminton tourney begins in HCM City; Vietnam to play in BIDC football Cup; Karate champ lectures in Istanbul; Bao Viet insures Vietnamese team at AIG Vietnamese sprinter seeks Games glory  Top sprinter Vu Thi Huong will run with Vietnam ’s support at the third Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam [...]

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Minh dominates in Open debut

September 24, 2009
Minh dominates in Open debut

LookAtVietnam – Most tournament seeds survived the first round of the Japan Open on September 23, including Viet Nam’s Nguyen Tien Minh, Qualifier: Viet Nam’s Nguyen Tien Minh qualified for the Japan Open’s second round.Minh, the world No 9 and seeded No 8 in the Open, needed only 33 minute to send the unseeded Thomsen [...]

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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...