January 9, 2012
Former Italian football star Fabio Canavaro will visit Ho Chi Minh City on Friday. Photo by Dan Tri. Fabio Canavaro, the best player of the 2006 FIFA World Cup and member of the Italian squad as the Cup champions, will come to Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, January 6. Canavaro will meet the media [...]
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January 9, 2012
Vietnam's No.1 chess player Le Quang Liem. Photo by worldchess.com. GM Le Quang Liem so far has been the only Vietnamese selected to carry the 2012 London Olympics torch in Manchester, England, in June. Last year was a successful year for Vietnam’s No.1 chess player. The 21-year-old Liem successfully defended his Aeroflot title in Russia, [...]
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October 9, 2011
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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September 25, 2011
Thailand with the U19 ASEAN Football Federation Championship trophy. Photo by VnExpress Vietnam lost 4-5 to Thailand in a penalty shootout in the ASEAN Football Federation Championship final in Myanmar on Wednesday after a 1-1 draw in a dramatic U19 fight. The match was scheduled to start at 6 p.m. but a downpour delayed it until 9 [...]
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September 4, 2011
Though he is offically with Spain’s top-tier club Atlectico Madrid now, Nigerian striker Samson Kayode Olaleye must pay the Vietnamese football club Hanoi T&T at least US$2 million if he wants to play in Europe. Olaleye is in trouble because he received a large amount of cash from Hanoi T&T and signed a memorandum [...]
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July 28, 2011
Vietnam’s No.1 chess player Le Quang Liem defeated Ukrainian Ruslan Olegovich Ponomariov in their fifth meeting at the 39th Super Grandmaster Chess meet in Dortmund, Germany on Tuesday. The 10th-ranked Ponomariov is the event’s reigning champ and the 27th-ranked Liem was the only one competitor who beat him at last year’s contest, in which Liem [...]
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July 25, 2011
Vietnamese chess ace, Le Quang Liem, drew with US speed chess pro Hikaru Nakamura during their second match at the Super grandmaster contest in Germany, on Saturday. By capitalizing on drawing white, the 27th-ranked Vietnamese player arranged his pieces in a strongly defensive way against the 6th-ranked American. Liem stood firm against Nakamura’[s attacks, but the Vietnamese number one [...]
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May 24, 2011
A British lawmaker defied a court ruling Monday by naming Ryan Giggs as the footballer who used an injunction to keep details of an alleged affair secret, escalating a row over privacy laws and the Internet. Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming named the Manchester United player using his centuries-old right to freedom of speech [...]
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May 8, 2011
The quartet Camkytiwa, Huong Thanh (1), Etsuko Chida (2), E’Joung Ju (3), Yan Li (4). Camkytiwa will hold its first concert in Vietnam on May 14. The all-female Asian Quartet will bring traditional fusion to the stage of the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music. Renowned Vietnamese-French jazz vocalist, Huong Thanh, will lead [...]
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February 18, 2011
Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem Vietnam’s Le Quang Liem beat Kobalia Mikhail of Russia in his seventh game at the Aeroflot Open 2011 in Moscow on Monday evening. The victory keeps Liem, the defending champion, on top of Group A with five wins and two draws. He now has six points, one point ahead [...]
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