Posts Tagged ‘ Grand Prix ’

Local badminton hero crowned on home ground 

September 1, 2011
Local badminton hero crowned on home ground 

  Badminton star Nguyen Tien Minh beat Japanese rival Sho Sasaki to win the men’s singles championship at the 2011 Vietnam Open Grand Prix in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday. It took the 7th-ranked top seed Vietnamese 40 minutes to defeat the 9th-ranked second seeded Japanese 21-13, 21-17. It was Minh’s first international championship so [...]

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Vietnam targets Asian gold from two athletes 

May 14, 2011
Vietnam targets Asian gold from two athletes 

ruong Thanh Hang (L) and Vu Thi Huong are training hard to qualify for the 2012 Olympics in London. The Vietnam Athletics Federation has set a goal for the country’s leading athletes, Vu Thi Huong and Tr ươ ng Thanh Hang to win gold medals at the Asian Athletics Championships in Japan in July. Of [...]

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Two silvers for Vietnam at first round of Asian archery grand prix 

March 1, 2011

  Vietnamese archers finished the first round of the Asian Archery Grand Prix 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand (February 17-22) with two silver medals. Nguyen Tien Cuong took the silver medal in the men’s three-stringed bow event after losing 2-6 in the final to the 2000 and 2004 Olympics champion Tang Hua of China. Cuong beat [...]

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Chinese pair wins Figure Skating Grand Prix final

December 6, 2009
Chinese pair wins Figure Skating Grand Prix final

Chinese pair Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo celebrated an impressive comeback to the ice arena by winning the season’s ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating . . . China’s Shen Xue (R)/Zhao Hongbo perform during pairs free skating competition of 2009-2010 ISU World Figure Skating Grand Prix Final in Tokyo, captial of Japan, December 5, [...]

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Designers fete entry into Asian Fashion Federation

November 23, 2009
Designers fete entry into Asian Fashion Federation

A fashion show of leading Asian designers was kicked off to celebrate the Vietnam Textile & Apparel Association’s (Vitas) joining of the Asian Fashion Federation (AFF) on November 22 in Hanoi.   The AFF was established in 2003 with the signing of an agreement between Japan, Korea and China in Tokyo. The agreement confirmed a [...]

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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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Nhung advances in Grand Prix

October 8, 2009
Nhung advances in Grand Prix

LookAtVietnam – Viet Nam’s top badminton player Le Ngoc Nguyen Nhung scored her first international win since returning to circuit earlier this year Deft touch: Le Ngoc Nguyen Nhung beat unseeded Indonesian Melicia Kurniawan in the first round of the Yonex-Sunrise Viet Nam Open Grand Prix yesterday to enter the second round of the women’s [...]

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Tien Minh sweeps the field again

August 31, 2009
Tien Minh sweeps the field again

Nguyen Tien Minh of Ho Chi Minh City cruised through the men’s singles final of the Yonex Chinese Taipei Gold Grand Prix on Sunday to cement his place among the world’s top badminton players. The world number ten, and the tournament’s third seed, defeated 12th-ranked and sixth-seeded Wong Choong Hann of Malaysia in straight sets [...]

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Minh snags Grand Prix Gold and $12,750 prize

August 31, 2009
Minh snags Grand Prix Gold and $12,750 prize

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh won the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold on August 30, Ecstatic: Nguyen Tien Minh beat Wong Chong Han of Malaysia in the final of the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold on August 30.Minh won the first set 21-11 and appeared to have no difficulty beating his Malaysian rival [...]

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Minh strolls into Grand Prix 3rd round

August 29, 2009
Minh strolls into Grand Prix 3rd round

Nguyen Tien Minh entered the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold’s third round after beating Kazuteru Kozai 2-0 yesterday. LookAtVietnam – Third seed Nguyen Tien Minh entered the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold’s third round after beating Kazuteru Kozai 2-0 on August 27.World No 9 Minh met no difficulty with the unseeded Japanese Kozai, who is [...]

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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...