• Vietnam targets Asian gold from two athletes 

    13/05/2011 05:00

    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 Æ°Æ¡ ng...

  • “Price storm” hits meals of national athletes

    12/05/2011 05:00

    The pay for cooking for athletes of national sports teams will be increased to VND200,000 ($10)/person/day for national teams and VND150,000/person/day for young teams. The price storm has directly hit their meals. Struggling with prices...

  • Temporary coaches appointed for national football squads

    11/05/2011 05:00

    The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has assigned Navibank Saigon’s coach Mai Duc Chung, as the temporary coach of the national men’s football team. Coach Mai Duc Chung He will lead the team to play Macao in the two matches of the qualifying...

  • Vietnam wins one bronze at world taekwondo championships 

    08/05/2011 05:00

    Vietnam had to rest content with just one bronze medal at the 2011 world taekwondo championships in Gyeongju, South Korea after Le Huynh Chau won it in the men’s under-63kg  event on Friday. Chau lost to Britain’s...

  • German coach Goetz to come to Vietnam next week

    07/05/2011 05:00

    If nothing changes, German coach Falko Goetz will arrive in Hanoi in the next few days to sign a contract to serve as coach of Vietnam’s national football squad....

  • V-League prepares for second half

    07/05/2011 05:00

    Song Lam Nghe An after a string of nine unbeaten matches continue to lead the first half of the national football championship, V-League, which ended last week. The central team took 29 points from 13 matches, putting them four points clear of second place Da...

  • Tien Minh sails through semi-finals

    07/05/2011 05:00

    Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh did not have to go through the whole match to reach the semi-finals after Indonesia’s unseeded Kuncoro Sony Dwi retired yesterday at the Yonex-Sunrise Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold. World No 8 and the third-seeded...

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