Amateur and elite athletes are invited to join the Hanoi Vertical Run, Vietnam’s highest stair climbing race, which will take place at the Landmark 72 building in the capital city on September 15.

Bilingual rapper KenshoKuma and Tokyo-based beat maker Cloud NI9E will perform together at CAM ATK in Hanoi on August 29.

(VOV) - Omar Borkan Al Gala-one of three men expelled from the Saudi Arabia festival last April for being “too handsome” is scheduled to arrive in Ho Chi Minh City on September 11.

(VOV) - Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) will provide VND300 million for restoration of the set of Bien chung (brass bells), an instrument of the Hue Royal Court Music band.

(VOV) - The 4th German Film Festival will take place in Hanoi, Haiphong, Danang, Hue, Ho Chi Minh City, Nha Trang and Thai Nguyen from September 5 to October 3.

(VOV) - Vietnamese swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien won a gold medal in the 200m backstroke event at the 2013 Asian Youth Games in China on August 21.

(VOV) -Grand Master Le Quang Liem successfully held Chess World Cup defending champion Peter Svidler to a draw in their return leg match of the fourth round on August 21.

(VOV) - The Republic of Korea’s VIXX band will be visiting Vietnam in November to carry out volunteer activities within the “Eye Camp Expedition” project.

(VOV) - Female Vietnamese swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien took a silver medal in the 100m backstroke event at the 2013 Asian Youth Games in China on August 20.

(VOV) - A national photographic exhibition based on two themes “Discovering the Red River Civilization” and “Homeland’s sea and island” will take place in Haiphong city from August 28 to September 6. 

(VOV) - The National Boxing Championships 2013 opened in Haiphong city on August 20 with the participation of 215 boxers from cities and provinces across the country.

(VOV) - Cuba’s famous dancer Allfredo Torres Jureidini will be the last fourth judge invited to “Got to Dance 2013” in Vietnam.

(VOV) -Vietnamese player Le Quang Liem’s excellent performance held the Chess World Cup defending champion, Peter Svidler from Russia, to a draw in the first leg match of the tournament’s fourth round on August 20.

(VOV) -The Vietnamese football team easily thrashed Myanmar 4-0 in its first match of the U16 Southeast Asia (SEA) Football Championships on August 20.

(VOV) -More than 150 Buddhist artifacts spanining the 7th to the 20th centuries are currently on display at an exhibition in the central city of Danang.

A national badminton tournament will be organised especially for families this August to encourage physical exercise and sport training among the masses. 

(VOV) -Thai writer Prabhassorn Sevikul has recently introduced his Time in a Bottle novel to Hanoi readers.

(VOV) -Top Vietnam’s badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh was unexpectedly beaten by Indian rival Ajay Jayaram in his third match for Pune Pistons club in India’s first badminton league (IBL) tournament on August 19.

(VOV) -Grandmaster Le Quang Liem (elo 2702) successfully thrashed his much stronger opponent World No.4 Alexander Grischuk 1.5-0.5 in their tiebreak of two rapid matches on August 19 to enter the Chess World Cup 4th round.

(VOV) - The Vietnam Festival 2013 will be organized in Tokyo on September 14-15 and in Nagoya on September 21-22 as part of activities to celebrate 40 years of establishing Vietnam-Japan diplomatic ties.

(VOV) - A Vietnamese delegation is in Singapore attending the 79th World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) on the theme “Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities”.

(VOV) -Chess Grand Master Le Quang Liem could not maintain his advantage of winning the first leg of the Chess World Cup’s third round against Russia’s Alexander Grischuk and was defeated by his opponent in the return leg on August 18.

(VOV) - Grand master Le Quang Liem won important success before his Russian rival at the first match of the third round at the World Chess Championship which is being held in Norway. 

(VOV) - Nguyen Tran Anh Tuan won the first silver medal in weight-lifting event for Vietnam at the Asian Youth Games which is being held in China.

(VOV) - Nghe An and Ha Tinh central provinces hosted a ceremony on August 17 to receive  the national cultural heritage certificate for vi giam folk singing and launch the second vi giam folk singing festival.

(VOV) - The Southeast Asian International E-Sports Tournament has begun in Ho Chi Minh City on August 17.

(VOV) - The Vietnam-Japan collaboration entitled “Power of Calligraphy” was held at Hanoi’s Van Mieu Quoc Tu Giam (The Temple of Literature)  on August 17.

(VOV) - Three Vietnamese representatives were among the more than 200 international delegates participating in the second International Summit of the Book in Singapore on August 16.

(VOV) -The Scottish capital of Edinburgh has scheduled a Vietnam Discovery Day on September 7 as part of commemorations for the 40th year of Vietnamese-UK diplomatic ties.

A photo exhibition on the life of King Duy Tan, one of the last kings of the Nguyen Dynasty, was held in the ancient imperial city of Hue on August 15.