• Vietnam men strike back, women lose at Olympiad

    Vietnam men strike back, women lose at Olympiad

    07/09/2012 03:32

    Vietnamese chess star Le Quang Liem (Elo rating 2693) remained in his seat at the first board, and took Vietnam to a 1 – 0 lead by beating Solak Dragan (2599), while the second most important player on the team, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (2639), increased the lead to 2 – 0 after...

  • Top chess players of Vietnam will compete at Chess Olympiad

    Top chess players of Vietnam will compete at Chess Olympiad

    27/08/2012 10:05

    According to the Turkish Chess Federation, this will be the largest ever Olympiad, with competitors coming from 162 countries and territories. Vietnam will compete in men’s and women’s team events. The men’s team consists of Le Quang Liem, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, Dao...

  • Women’s soccer team seeks to provide pay legacy in British Olympic

    Women’s soccer team seeks to provide pay legacy in British Olympic

    13/08/2012 08:43

    Robin van Persie and Rachel Yankey play as strikers for Arsenal in English soccer’s elite leagues. The similarity ends there. While Van Persie is a millionaire who’s told the club he wants to leave and may get a contract worth as much as 150,000 pounds ($233,000) a week by...

  • Ha Noi to add 49 new bus routes

    Ha Noi to add 49 new bus routes

    10/02/2012 08:07

    The Ha Noi People's Committee yesterday, Feb 8, approved a VND1.2 trillion (US$ 57.4 million) proposal for Ha Noi Transport and Services Corporation (Transerco) to operate 49 additional city bus routes, including five routes exclusively serving municipal employees. The Ha...

  • Vietnamese students attend regional schools games

    02/07/2011 05:00

    Vietnamese student-athletes, representing over 10 million students at junior and senior high schools nationwide, now take part in the third ASEAN Schools Games (ASG) in Singapore from July 1-7. The 147-member team will compete in six sports at the event–...

  • Minh seeded third for US Open

    02/07/2011 05:00

    Nguyen Tien Minh has been seeded third for the coming YONEX-OCBC US Open Grand Prix Gold Championships, to be held at the Orange County Badminton Club, California, USA . The world No...

  • National men’s volleyball team still believes in foreign coaches

    02/07/2011 05:00

    After two months of probation, the Brazilian coach of the Vietnam national men’s volleyball squad – Augusto Sabbatini – has to return home for failing to meet the team’s requirement. The Vietnam Federation of Volleyball (VFV) said it would continue...

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