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Quang Liem earns draw with Ponomariov in Danzhou Super - GM 2017

 Vietnam grandmaster Le Quang Liem has earned a draw with Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine at the ongoing Hainan Danzhou Super Grandmaster Chess Tournament in China.

Vietnamese athlete wins gold at Asian athletic event

 Nguyen Thi Huyen took home a gold medal from the Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India on Saturday.

Vietnam win silver in Asian athletics competition

 Vietnamese runners wrapped up the Asian Athletics Championship with a silver medal yesterday.

Le Quang Liem to compete in US Rapid Blitz tournament

 Vietnamese Grandmaster (GM) Le Quang Liem has been invited by Grand Chess Tour (GCT) to participate in the St. Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament in the US on August 14 - 18.

Vietnam wins gold at Asian athletics champs

 Bui Thi Thu Thao won a gold medal at the Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India on Thursday.

Iranian team to represent Asia in world club volleyball championship after victory in VN

Sarmayeh Bank of Iran will represent Asia to compete in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men’s Club World Championship after taking the overall trophy at the 2017 AVC Men’s Club Volleyball Championship in Ninh Binh province on July 6.

Vietnam football drops two notches in FIFA rankings

 Vietnam’s national football squad has fallen two notches from a month earlier, ranking 133rd with 231 points in the latest FIFA rankings, the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) announced on July 6.

Broadcasters have to pay participation fees at SEA Games

 Eight years after the 25th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 25) hosted by Laos, television rights are reminded at SEA Games 29 scheduled to take place in Malaysia from August 11-30.

Beijing Baic Motor beat Vietnam in volleyball tournament

 China’s Beijing Baic Motor beat Viet Nam in a match to determine the fifth to eighth positions of the SMM 2017 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship on July 5.

Quang Liem to compete with former world chess champion Kasparov

 Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem has been invited by Grand Chess Tour (GCT) to participate in the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament on August 14 - 19.

Khanh Hoa earn ticket to compete in AFF futsal event

 Viet Nam’s Sanna Khanh Hoa yesterday beat Australia’s East Coast Heat FC 6-2 in the last match of Group B to earn a ticket to compete in the semi-finals of the AFF Futsal Club Championship in Bangkok .

Ly Hoang Nam out of China F11 Men’s Futures

 Viet Nam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam was ousted from the ongoing China F11 Men’s Futures tennis tournament in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.

Vietnam wins taekwondo gold in South Korea

 Vietnamese martial artist Ho Thi Kim Ngan won a gold medal at the second competition day of the Chuncheon South Korea Open International Taekwondo Championships on Tuesday.

VN Grandmaster finishes second in World Open chess

 Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem finished second in the World Open 2017 chess tournament which wrapped up in the US on July 4.

Vietnam sends roughly 476 athletes to SEA Games 29

 The Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism has unveiled that the country will participate at SEA Games 29 with nearly 476 athletes.

Le Quang Liem ties in sixth and seventh round of World Open

 Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem had draws in both the sixth and seventh round of the World Open 2017 chess tournament in the US.

‘Action packed’ VTV women’s volleyball fest gets underway July 8

Teams from six Asian countries will highlight the VTV Women’s Volleyball Cup that gets underway July 8 at the Hai Duong Competition Hall in the northern city of Hai Duong, according to a press conference.

Khanh Hoa beat Vientiane Capital at AFF futsal champs

 Vietnam’s Sanna Khanh Hoa crushed Vientiane Capital of Laos 9-2 at the AFF Futsal Club Championship in Bangkok on July 4.

Ly Hoang Nam wins first tennis match in China

 Ly Hoang Nam of Vietnam won his first match at the China F11 Men’s Futures tennis tournament in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, on July 3.

Vietnamese cueists aim for world glory

 Nine Vietnamese cueists will compete in the three-cushion World Cup championship in Porto, Portugal.