January 15, 2012
Vietnam may need to import US$2.5-billion in gold during 2012. The State Bank of Vietnam has allowed more than 10 companies to import a total 2.1 tons of gold for jewelry production, local media reported Friday. Some of the companies, including DI, Jewelpark Vina, Son Duong Vang, have been granted quotas to import more than [...]
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January 7, 2012
 Tran Tuy’s Khuc dong ca (a children’s song) (Under), which was eerily reminiscent of photographer Duy Anh’s Tiep buoc cha ong (Follow in the ancestor’s footsteps) (Above). Since the list of award-winning works were announced in June, a provincial literature and arts contest in central Vietnam has received several petitions of denouncement regarding a [...]
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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
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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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 19, 2011
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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November 19, 2011
Gymnast Do Thi Ngan Thuong on the way to winning the gold medal in the balance beam Monday at the SEA Games in Indonesia Vietnam won 11 out of the 15 gold medals in gymnastics at the ongoing South East Asian Games in Indonesia, and could possibly have swept the board but for the [...]
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November 15, 2011
21-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc (C) at the podium after finishing first in the women’s 20km walk; Photo by Kha Hoa. With 11 gold medals on Sunday, Vietnam has won a total of 17 gold medals after two days at the 26th South East Asian Games in Indonesia. Twenty-one-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc won the first gold [...]
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November 6, 2011
Nguyen Hoang Lam (L), Photo by VnExpress. Vietnamese players took two gold medals in the men’s and women’s contests at the 15th Asian Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) Individual Championships that ended in Macau on Friday. In the men’s event, Vietnam’s number one Nguyen Thanh Bao stayed at home to prepare for the World Chinese Chess Championships [...]
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September 8, 2011
Le Van Luyen (C), 18, is arrested on August 31 in the northern province of Lang Son for murdering three people at a Bac Giang gold shop on August 24. A lawyer will be appointed to defend an 18-year-old youth who has confessed to the gruesome murder of a couple and their daughter in the [...]
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