(VOV) - Contestants for the Miss Photo 2012 competition spent several hours in the water for a photo shoot, the first of its kind in beauty pageants.

(VOV) - A caretaker coach will be appointed to lead the national squad at the upcoming Asian Cup qualifiers.

(VOV) -50 leading hotels and restaurants in 25 countries and territories are taking part in the 7th Food Festival in Ho Chi Minh City from December 12-16.

(VOV) -The “ACD Tour of Vietnam”, the country’s first bicycle race under the International Cycling Union (UCI) system, will be held for the first time from December 16-22.

(VOV) - Vietnamese photographer Tran Viet Van has achieved two certificates of Honourable Mention for his photos: “Memory No. 5” and “Memory No. 9” in the UK’s Fine Art competition. 

(VOV) - The organizing board of Miss Universe 2012 has selected twenty contestants having the most beautiful faces, including Luu Thi Diem Huong from Vietnam placed 13th among them.

Vietnam won a gold medal at the World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships which was wrapped up in Colombia on December 10.

Sixty-two photos depicting the Mine Advisory Group (MAG)’s activities to clear unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Vietnam are on display in HCM City.

A Cham tower complex has been found in Hoa Vang District, Danang City, after a three-month excavation, including 629 objects dating from the 10th-14th centuries, archaeologists from the National Museum of Vietnamese History announced on December 11.

(VOV) - The national tournament for the country’s elite taekwondo clubs, known as the 2012 Republic of Korea’s (RoK) Ambassador’s Cup, will be held in Hanoi from December 15–22. 

(VOV) - Photographer Sebastien Laval’s exhibition, entitled “Hanoi 18h/6h”, will open at Hanoi’s French Cultural Centre L’Espace on December 13.

(VOV) - Vietnamese representative Luu Thi Diem Huong has celebrated an early Christmas party with her fellow Miss Universe 2012 contestants.

Vietnamese people and foreign expatriates will have a chance to relive the most heroic atmosphere of the anti-US time when attending a film week featuring “Hanoi-Dien Bien Phu in the Air” victory.

(VOV) -Dang Chau Anh is the only Vietnamese to join with four foreign famous artists in the jury board of the International Choir Festival scheduled for December 12-16 in the central city of Hue.

(VOV) - Dù kê is a popular form of folk art created by the Khmer in the Southwestern region of Vietnam. All performances praise the good and condemn the bad.

(VOV) - In the final round of Miss Photo 2012 thirty contestants wearing Ao Dais (traditional long dresses) have posed for photographs in Nguyen’s Art Garden in Ho Chi Minh City. 

Saigon Heat will host Westports Malaysia Dragon of Malaysia in HCM City on January 12 in the team’s first game of the 2012 ASEAN Basketball League.

Three Vietnamese athletes have won silver medals at the ongoing World Bodybuilding Championships in Thailand.

Young Vietnamese footballer Nguyen Thai Sung has been invited to train with Sporting Lisbon’s under-21 team.

After three days of competitions, Vietnam have pocketed four silver and two bronze medals at the World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Tunja, Columbia.

FIFA has decided to provide the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) with US$500,000 for training new U15 talents following the success of the Goal Project in Vietnam, according to VFF Chairman Nguyen Trong Hy. 

(VOV) - Vietnamese representative Luu Thi Diem Huong will wear one of the two evening dresses designed by Adrian Anh Tuan for the Miss Universe 2012 contest’s final night in Las Vegas on December 19.

(VOV) - The Republic of Korea’s (RoK) Vietnam Week, running from December 5-9, has inspired a range of cultural and business activities, promoting Vietnam’s profile and the friendship between the two countries.

(VOV) - Vietnam Fashion Week—and its Spring/Summer design focus—concluded on December 8 with a Hanoi runway show celebrating special collections and starring beauty queens and models. 

(VOV) - The capital city will be developing six typical traditional craft villages till 2015 closely linked with the tourism sector in the hope of exploiting its cultural and economic advantages.

Two men, one Australian and one Vietnamese, will embark on a pole-to-pole super-marathon along the length of Vietnam in order to raise funds for clean drinking and sanitary projects.

The women's national football team of Vietnam has moved up one step to 30th place in the latest FIFA rankings for the fourth quarter of the year, with 1,640 points.

(VOV) - Vietnamese audiences have enjoyed the famous Indian dance troupe Odissi’s outstanding performances at the opening ceremony of a three-day event in Hanoi on December 7.

(VOV) - The heritage of the three Indochinese countries Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, will be exhibited at 9 museums as part of activities marking forty years since the signing of the World Heritage Convention (1972–2012).

(VOV) - The Top Model Online competition has officially opened, kick-starting Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2013—the country’s fourth iteration of the series.