January 22, 2012
Police in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang have arrested a woman for organizing gambling chess games for local officials, Tuoi Tre reported Thursday. The newspaper quoted police as saying Ngo Hue Phan let Nguyen Thanh Leo, former deputy director of Soc Trang Province Transport Department, and Dinh Van Muoi, former deputy chief [...]
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January 14, 2012
Pham Phuoc Hung has become the second Vietnamese gymnast to have qualified for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Pham Phuoc Hung has qualified for this summer’s Olympics in London after earning a total of 83.532 points at the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Qualifying contest in London on Wednesday. Forty-nine gymnasts from around the world competed for [...]
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January 6, 2012
An unnamed official in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang is suspected of gambling away billions of dong on Chinese chess games after being fingered by a former official who is in custody for alleged gambling. The provincial police said Wednesday that the arrested official, Nguyen Thanh Leo, former deputy chief of the provincial [...]
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January 3, 2012
An Iranian ground-to-sea missile is launched on the last day of navy war games near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on January 2. Iran’s military has warned one of the US navy’s biggest aircraft carriers to keep away from the Gulf, in an escalating showdown over Tehran’s nuclear drive. Iran’s military on [...]
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December 28, 2011
Two transport officials in southern Vietnam who were caught gambling billions of dong on Chinese chess games have been suspended from their posts and taken into for two months pending investigations. A VnExpress newswire report Tuesday said Nguyen Thanh Leo, deputy chief of the provincial Transport Department, and Tran Van Tan, director of Soc [...]
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December 16, 2011
Gymnast Phan Thi Ha Thanh will be nominated for the Labor Award, third class, for some glorious performances at last month’s SEA Games in Indonesia Six athletes will be nominated for the Labor Award, third class, for their outstanding performances at the Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia last month, a sports official has said. Lam [...]
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December 6, 2011
Gymnast Pham Phuoc Hung is expected to win 2012 Olympic berths for Vietnam Vietnam has halved its target for Olympic berths in London next year to 10 after reconsidering its athletes’ qualifying chances. According to Hoang Vinh Giang, vice chairman and general secretary of the Vietnamese Olympic Committee, Vietnam has won five berths through badminton [...]
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November 22, 2011
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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November 21, 2011
Nguyen Hoang Thien serves during a match against SEA Games champ Filipino Cecil Mamiit in Indonesia on Thursday. Photo by Kha Hoa. Hoang Thien put up a good fight against defending champion Cecil Mamiit in the first round of the men’s singles tennis tournament at the South East Asian Games in Indonesia Thursday. The 16-year-old [...]
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November 21, 2011
Vietnamese under-23 footballers (L) dejected after losing to SEA Games hosts Indonesia in the semis on Saturday Vietnam lost 0-2 to hosts Indonesia in the football semifinals of the South East Asian Games at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium on Saturday. The hosts launched lots of attacks and looked better throughout the game while the Vietnamese [...]
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