Viet
Nam dominate regional table tennis tourney

Viet Nam finished with
five gold medals at the Southeast Asian Table Tennis Championships in Marikina
city, in the Philippines.

HCM City-born Mai
Hoang My Trang took a crucial win over Beh Lee Wei of Malaysia in the women’s
singles final before taking another gold in the team event on Wednesday night.

Earlier, Trang and her
teammate Mai Xuan Hang also won the women’s doubles event.

Olympian Doan Kien
Quoc and Tran Tuan Quynh won gold in the men’s doubles for Viet Nam after taking
the title in the men’s team event.

Viet Nam dominated the
championships in the absence of top international stars such as Gao Ning and
Yang Xi of Singapore.

Disciplines
named for 2014 SEA Games

Karate had been
included on the schedule for the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea in
2014, announced Vu Son Ha, head of the national sports administration’s karate
department.

The martial art and
cricket were the last two sports to be selected by the Olympic Council of Asia
after a meeting in Oman on Tuesday.

The Incheon Asian
Games Organising Committee plans to host 35 sports, including 28 Olympic sports
as well as baseball, bowling, kabaddi, sepak takraw, soft ball and wushu.

The national sports
administration also selected karate as one of 10 key sports that would receive
special investment as part of a 2011-20 strategy.

New
season of the V-League to kick off in January

Defending champions Ha
Noi T&T will meet Hoa Phat Ha Noi in the opening match of the V-League on
January 22.

The new season will
see 14 teams competing for a cash-prize of VND3 billion (US$150,000) in the
national championship.

The most anticipated
match of the first round will see 2008 champions Da Nang battling it out against
two-time champions Hoang Anh Gia Lai at Chi Lang Stadium.

Yesterday, Dec 15, Eximbank
officially signed a 3-year sponsorship deal with the national V-League worth a
total of VND90 billion ($4.5million).

The Viet Nam Football
Federation said it would officially announce that cable TV provider Audio Visual
Global (AVG) won the exclusive television rights to the V-League in a ceremony
on Saturday.

Capital’s
fencers take golds at SEA Champs

Young Hanoian fencers
have bagged six golds at the on-going Southeast Asian Youth Fencing
Championships in Brunei.

Nguyen Thanh Van
clinched a gold medal in the women’s individual epee, while Nguyen Thi Thanh
Loan added another in the sabre.

Le Thi Bich and Nguyen
Tien Nhat also took golds in the women’s foil and men’s sabre late on Tuesday.

There was more success
for Viet Nam in the team events, with the men’s team winning the sabre and the
women taking the epee gold.

VietNamNet/Viet
Nam News