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Thais dominate women’s table tennis Loan wins gold in standard Chinese chess Tiến Minh makes men’s badminton semi Việt Nam win two golds in blitz chess VN, Thailand, Indonesia win canoe golds   Hoàng Thị Duyên set a new height in the women’s U59kg category. — VNA/VNS Photo Quốc Khánh Thanh Hà HÀ NỘI — Hoàng …

Thais dominate women’s table tennis Loan wins gold in standard Chinese chess Việt Nam win two golds in blitz chess VN, Thailand, Indonesia win canoe golds World Vovinam Federation hails Games   Nguyễn Tiến Minh entered the semi-finals. — VNA/VNS Photo Danh Lam HÀ NỘI — The crowd at the Bắc Giang Provincial Sports Hall …

  Thailand’s Orawan Paranang in action against rival Zeng Jian of singapore. VNA/VNS Quý Trung HOÀNG HỒ HẢI DƯƠNG — Superb performances from the Thai pair Suthasini Sawettabut and Orawan Paranang in the semi-finals created an all-Thai final in the table tennis women’s singles at Hải Dương Sports Complex on May 20. …

Tiến Minh makes men’s badminton semi Việt Nam win two golds in blitz chess VN, Thailand, Indonesia win canoe golds World Vovinam Federation hails Games Late winner against Malaysia sends Việt Nam into SEA Games final   Lê Thị Kim Loan competes in the women’s individual standard Chinese chess category on May 20. — …

  Anwar Tarra, Dedi Saputra, Sofiyanto Sofiyanto and Yuda Firmansyah from Indonesia show their medals won in the men’s 500m canoe four at the SEA Games 31 on May 20. They took a time in 1min 40.78sec for a first finish. — VNA/VNS Photo Minh Đức  HÀ NỘI — Thailand …

  Lê Tuấn Minh celebrates his gold medal in the men’s blitz chess event on May 20. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Vân Thanh Nga QUẢNG NINH — Vietnamese chess players brought home two more gold medals in the blitz chess category on May 20. In the men’s blitz, Lê Tuấn …

  Mohammed Djouadj, Vice President of the World Vovinam Federation and Chairman of the African Vovinam Federation. VNA/VNS Photo Nam Thái Thu Hà HÀ NỘI — Mohammed Djouadj, Vice President of the World Vovinam Federation and Chairman of the African Vovinam Federation, has expressed his admiration of the host country’s organisation of the …

Filipino pool legend Efren Reyes suffered a second loss at the SEA Games but that did not diminish him in the eyes of hundreds of fans. The 67-year-old, regarded as one of the world’s finest players in his heyday, faced off against local hope Tran Quyet Chien in a three-cushion …

Malaysian coach Brad Maloney rued the 0-1 defeat to Vietnam in the SEA Games football semifinals Thursday night despite putting up a great fight. “I’m proud of the Malaysia players; they fought until the end,” he said after the game in Phu Tho’s Viet Tri Stadium. “Malaysia’s strategy was effective …

  Việt Nam’s Nguyễn Trần Thanh Tự in action against Filipino legend Efren Reyes in the semi-finals. VNA/VNS Photo Khánh Hòa HOÀNG HỒ HÀ NỘI — The hotly anticipated all-Vietnamese men’s one-cushion corom was not to be, as Phạm Quốc Tuấn was forced to withdraw after testing positive.  And so, without breaking a …