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Many children from eight to 13 years old join the basketball festival programme. – Photo Courtesy Sun Life Vietnam HCM CITY – A basketball festival called High Hoop with training sessions for children from eight to 13 years old in HCM City, Đà Nẵng, Vinh, and Hà Nội will be …

Athletics Lê Thị Tuyết Mai has pledged to bring in top results for Việt Nam in the women’s 400m and 400m hurdles after her wins at the regional tournament for youth. Photo courtesy of Lê Thị Tuyết Mai HÀ NỘI — Lê Thị Tuyết Mai didn’t expect to run as …

Nguyễn Thị Xuân (top) is Việt Nam’s strong hope for success at international events. — Photo baohaiphong.com.vn Wrestling HÀ NỘI — Despite consistently asserting their position in the Southeast Asian arena, the Vietnamese wrestling team lacks opportunities to compete in continental and international events. Securing places for the 2024 Paris …

Vietnamese club Cong An Ha Noi have temporarily suspended coach Gong Oh-kyun and his crew due to a poor run in the V. League this season. The change in coaching staff was announced to CAHN players on Saturday evening, one day after a 2-1 defeat to Khanh Hoa FC. The …

After sacking the head coach over the controversy involving the national youth table tennis team, the Vietnam Sports Administration has reprimanded three other individuals. Its director Dang Ha Viet said at a conference on Friday that a department head, a supervisory specialist at the National Sports Training Center and a …

Bulgarian coach Velizar Emilov Popov sarcastically called Vietnamese referees “the world’s best” as he blamed his club Thanh Hoa FC’s 0-1 loss to Becamex Binh Duong on poor officiating. The referee gives coach Velizar Emilov Popov (R, 2nd) a yellow card during the game between Thanh Hoa FC and Becamex …

Manchester City won the Club World Cup for the first time to end 2023 with five trophies after a 4-0 win over Fluminense in Jeddah on Friday. City’s victory extended European clubs’ domination of the competition since 2012 and was never in doubt once Julian Alvarez opened the scoring inside …

Tom Hanks as the title role in the 1994 movie Forrest Gump. Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures Paul Kennedy Next year marks 30 years since the movie Forrest Gump was released. 30 years, wow, it seems like only yesterday I saw the film for the first time. It’s stood the …

The Vietnamese men’s national football team wrapped up the year 2023 with the first place in Southeast Asia, 15th in Asia and 94th in the world in FIFA’s latest rankings. In Southeast Asia, Vietnam were followed by Thailand (113th in the world), Malaysia (130th), the Philippines (140th) and Indonesia (146th). …

Australia coach Graham Arnold said he was “excited by the potential” of his players at the Asian Cup after announcing a fresh-faced squad Friday, with a host of veterans cast aside. The 2015 champions will be among the favourites at the tournament in Qatar — which kicks off on January …