(VOV) - Local marksmen clinched four gold, six silver and six bronze medals at the 38th Southeast Asian Shooting Championships (SEASA 2014), which concluded in Singapore on December 17.

(VOV) - More than 300 chefs will gather in The Biggest Hot Pot in Vietnam scheduled to take place in Giang Vo Exhibition Centre in Hanoi on December 18.

(VOV) - Former football player Robbie Fowler arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on December 16 at the invitation of milk brand Love’in Farm Kun.

(VOV) -Travel guide book Saigon Zoom In, designed by painter Nguyen Tri Phuong Dong and his young associates from Dai Viet Hoan Cau Company, has become the first Vietnamese book to win America Graphic Design 2014 award.

(VOV) - Tran Tuan An, a young aspiring Vietnamese guitarist, is passionate about music and he attributes his success to a scholarship he received to attend the University of North Park in Chicago (USA) and Professors Julie Goldberg and Tom Zelle.

A series of traces revealing the most sufficient evidence of cultural layers dating from the 11th century to 20th century have been detected in the Kinh Thien Palace of the Thang Long Imperial Citadel’s central section.

(VOV) - The newly crowned 2014 Miss Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen has joined with more than 120 celebrities in making a Lunar New Year holiday season special – Huong Tet Viet.

(VOV) - Choreographers and dance troupes from eight countries around the globe performed December 7-16 at the second annual International Dance Festival in Ho Chi Minh City.

(VOV) - The Embassy of Canada launched the Canadian Food Festival the Hemisphere Steak & Seafood Grill restaurant at Sheraton Hanoi Hotel on December 16.

(VOV) - A photo collection of the best images from the 2014 Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards contest has embarked on a tour of the country and is now on display at the memorial complex for President Ton Duc Thang in Long Xuyen city, An Giang province.

Vietnamese students earned six gold and two silver medals on December 16 at the ongoing 17th ASEAN University Games (AUG 17) in Palembang, Indonesia.

Noted HCM City-based photographer Ly Hoang Long won a runner-up prize in the One Shot-One Moment category in the 2014 edition of the Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY).

(VOV) - Dang Thi Ngoc Han, former Miss Vietnam 2010, and Nguyen Tran Huyen My, first runner-up of Miss Vietnam 2014, recently made appearances at a programme celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) at the Hanoi Opera House.

(VOV) -After parading in national costume, evening gown and showing off her dance moves on the final night of the Miss World 2014 pageant at the Excel Centre in London,Miss World Vietnam Nguyen Thi Loan made it into the top 25.

(VOV) -Super models Lam Thu Hang and her ‘twin’ Mau Thanh Thuy are making their mark in dramatic and dynamic style in the fashion industry, launching a new autumn/winter fashion line for Do Manh Cuong.

The 36th International Theatre Institute (ITI) World Congress will be held in Vietnam in 2018.

(VOV) - Five hundred athletes from 20 military units and educational institutions are competing in the Unarmed Martial Arts Festival 2014 at Mieu Mon National Training Centre in Hanoi on December 12-18.

(VOV) -Vietnamese travel operations along with foreign partners participated in the third Sea Festival in Phnom Penh,Cambodia on December 12-14 with a view to developing the local marine tourism.

(VOV) - First runner-up of the 2014 Miss Vietnam pageant, Huyen My offered gifts for poor patients in Hanoi Oncology Hospital on December 13.

(VOV) - After eight years away from the silver screen, actress Truong Ngoc Anh is back looking as chic and elegant as the day she first stepped foot in the studios to shoot the feature film Ao Lua Ha Dong (The White Silk Dress).

(VOV) - Organizers of this year’s Christmas Festival, set for December 23-24 at the Westlake Water Park in Hanoi, are boasting it will be the largest in Vietnam.

(VOV) -An awards ceremony of a photo contest themed “Savour Vietnam” was held at Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City on December 11.

(VOV) - The 4th Coconut Festival, set for April 7-13 next year, has been stepped up to a national event and will be bigger and better than ever, Tran Ngoc Tam, head of the organizing board has announced.

An exhibition entitled Martine, a Friend from Europe opens in Hanoi on December 12, on the occasion of publishing the comic series Martin (20 episodes) in Vietnamese.

Vietnam failed to build on the 2-1 victory in the first-leg match and missed out the final match after losing 2-4 to the Malaysians in the second-leg game in the 2014 Southeast Asian Football Championship - AFF Suzuki Cup at the My Dinh Stadium in Hanoi on December 11.

Karate artists earned the first gold medal for Vietnam on December 11 at the ongoing 17th ASEAN University Games (AUG 17) in Palembang, Indonesia.

A recent excavation at the Lo Gach archaeological site in the vicinity of Kom Pong Thmo Pagoda, the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh, has revealed intact large-scale earthen ramparts believed to be the largest found so far in the southwestern region.

(VOV) - Nguyen Thi Loan dominated the Christmas party of the top 32 finalists at the 2014 Miss World pageant ongoing in the UK on December 10 after she slipped into a new style Ao Dai dress by designer Vo Viet Chung.

Chefs from Caravelle Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City won the first prize at the Golden Spoon Contest 2014, which ended in the southern province of Binh Duong on December 10.

(VOV) -Kristen Evelyn Rossi, Bangkok’s Broadway Babe, is taking Hanoi audiences by storm as the new resident singer at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi entertaining audiences each evening on Tuesdays through Sundays.