As many as 10 businesses have registered for membership of the Vietnam football sponsorship council, which will be established by Vietnam Professional Football (VPF) soon.

The 2012 Asian Taekwondo Championships will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from May 4 to 11.

More than 300 ancient artifacts from Southeast Asian nations are being displayed at the Vietnam History Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam defeated Indonesia 5-3 on April 25 at the ongoing 2012 Southeast Asia Futsal Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Vietnamese version of MTV Asia's popular reality contest VJ (video jockey) Hunt will air on MTV Vietnam television from July 15.

A film and photography installation exhibition entitled ‘Jo Ha Kyu’ by independent film maker Nguyen Trinh Thi and her husband, US photographer Jamie Maxtone Graham, is being held in Hanoi from April 25-May 24.  

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung has emphasized the time-honoured tradition of friendship and special solidarity between Vietnam and Laos as a valuable asset of both countries.

The U19 national team will gather on April 25 to attend an international friendly tournament held in Palestine from May 14-22.  

The fourth International Documentary Film Festival will take place in Hanoi and the central city of Danang early this June.

“The visitor”, directed by young amateur film-maker Nguyen Le Hoang Viet, has been selected as one of the top ten films for the final round of the 2012 Asia-Europe Film Awards (ASEF).

Nguyen Tien Minh will have no time to think about his humiliating Asian Championships loss as he heads to Johor Bahru for the Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold in early May.

Vietnam trounced Myanmar 7-2 on April 23 at the ongoing 2012 Southeast Asia Futsal Championships taking place in Bangkok, Thailand.

A circus troupe from China’s Yunnan province will make a performance tour of Vietnamese localities at the invitation of the Vietnam Circus Federation.

The Lao National Assembly Chairwoman, Pany Yathotu, and her Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Sinh Hung, cut a ribbon to open a photographic exhibition on Vietnam-Laos special friendship in Son La province on April 23.

Singer Tung Duong has won the Cong Hien (Dedication) Award for the fifth time.

The Book and Reading Culture Festival 2012 has drawn a large number of bookworms to Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam (the Temple of Literature) in Hanoi.

A handball tournament for men’s and women’s clubs across the country began at Lanh Binh Thang competition house in HCM City on April 22.

Leading rockers and dancers from Vietnam and abroad will perform at the Club for Art and Music Appreciation (CAMA) Music Festival 6, due to open in Hanoi on June 2.

Vietnamese table tennis players missed a chance to attend the 2012 London Olympics after being defeated at the Games’ Asian qualifying round in Hong Kong (China).

Vietnam has qualified at the semi-finals of the ongoing 2012 Southeast Asia Futsal Championship in Bangkok, Thailand, after defeating Myanmar 3-0 on April 21.

Young fencer Nguyen Tien Nhat has earned a berth at the coming London Olympics after cruising into the finals of the Games’ Asian qualifying round in Japan on April 21.

The Ho Chi Minh Museum in Vietnam and the Lenin Memorial House in Ulyanovsk, Russia, jointly held an exhibition on portraits of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Hanoi on April 20.

The Japan-Danang 2012 cultural festival was jointly organized on April 21 by Danang University of Foreign Languages and the Japan International Exchange Fund.

Four Vietnamese tennis players flew to Iran on April 20 to take part in the Davis Cup 2012 tournament.

The 2012 Asian Women’s Club Volleyball Championships kicked off in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, on April 21.

Outfits for spring and summer by Vietnamese designers will be put on show on the evening of April 21 during the Hanoi Fashion Week.

A nearly 400 year-old cluster fig tree in the northern midland province of Phu Tho is the first to become a Vietnam Heritage Tree.

Vietnam’s top player Nguyen Tien Minh had to stop in the third round of the ongoing 2012 Asian Badminton Championships in China after losing 1-2 to Hu Yun from Hong Kong on April 19.

Young female gymnast Do Thi Ngan Thuong has taken a berth to the coming 2012 Olympics in London.

Ethnic minority groups from various parts of Vietnam are taking part in a cultural market opened on April 19 in the Vietnamese Ethnic Groups Culture and Tourism Village in Dong Mo tourist area, 40km from Hanoi.