VOV.VN - The nation’s elite junior chess players are all heading to the city of Da Lat in the central highland province of Lam Dong July 5 for this year’s National Junior Chess Championship.

VOV.VN - The website of Mixed Martial Artist Junkie has unveiled that Tran Quang Loc from the southeast province of Dong Nai is headlining a major MMA event this August 5 in Macau, China.

The Asian Men’s Volleyball Championships, hosted by the northern provinces of Ninh Binh and Nam Dinh, opened in Ninh Binh on June 28.

VOV.VN - The starting line-up has been announced for the Vietnam U23 football game against Timor-Leste set for July 19 in Ho Chi Minh City.

HCM City will send 12 badminton players and two coaches to Thailand for a short training course in an attempt to find new talent.

VOV.VN - More than 150 young cyclists made their way to the city of Phan Thiet in the southern province of Binh Thuan where the Juniors Cycling Nationals got underway today (June 28).

VOV.VN - Coming off a spate of lacklustre showings, leading Vietnamese shuttler Nguyen Tien Minh dropped two places to No. 66 in the latest Badminton World Federation men’s singles rankings.

Head coach Nguyen Huu Thang on June 27 selected 28 players for the national U23 team for the upcoming 2018 AFC U23 Championship qualifiers.

The K-League All Stars team will arrive in Vietnam with 18 players for a friendly match, according to coach Hwang Sun-hong.

Coach Miguel Rodrigo has named 17 players for the national team, who will train for the Southeast Asian Games in Malaysia next month.

VOV.VN - Thirty best young players will take part in the Toyota Junior Football Clinic & Camp 2017 in Ho Chi Minh City from July 30 to August 6.

Vietnam women’s national football team moved up one spot to finish No 32 with 1644 points in the world ranking for the second quarter of 2017.

Young female director Luk Van’s latest TV show, Khi Ta 16 (When We’re 16), will broadcast on HCM Television this week after more than a year of shooting. 

Vietnamese pop singer Tim (Tran Nguyen Cat Vu) won first prize at the 27th Asia Model Awards, held in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK) late last week.

Young Vietnamese chess players won 20 gold medals at the Eastern Asian Youth Chess Championships which concluded in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on June 25.

Hanoi Football Club will compete in the Gothia World Youth Cup 2017 from July 16-22 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

VOV.VN - Truong Thi Kim Tuyen of Vietnam won a silver medal in the women’s under-46kg category at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships (June 24-30) ongoing in the Republic of Korea.

Ong Soon Seng from Malaysia won the 70km category of the Tam Dao Mountain Trail, which concluded in Tam Dao town in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on June 25.

Vietnam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam won the men’s singles title of the Thailand F3 Men’s Futures tennis tournament on June 24.

Miguel Rodrigo was appointed as head coach of Vietnam National Futsal Team from 2017 - 2020, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) announced in a ceremony in HCM City on June 24.

A friendly sports exchange between the Vietnamese embassy in Laos and the Lao Presidential Office kicked off in Vientiane on June 23. 

A mass yoga demonstration took place in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on June 24, attracting nearly 1,000 yoga lovers from Hanoi and the northern provinces of Hai Duong, Phu Tho, Bac Giang and Vinh Phuc. 

Aerobics coaches from eight countries are taking part in an international aerobics coaching course in Hanoi from June 19-27.

VOV.VN - It has been announced that this year’s 9th annual table tennis tourney in Vinh Long promises to be bigger and better than ever with more than 300 having already signed up for the event set for July 7-9.

VOV.VN - The skies over Tien Sa Beach in the coastal central city of Danang came alive today (June 24) with the colours of soaring canopies resembling parachutes as a paragliding festival got underway.

VOV.VN - An inaugural amateur tournament sponsored by the Association of Vietnamese Golf Lovers in Russia was bigger and better than ever hoped for, the Vietnam Embassy reported.

VOV.VN - Ly Hoang Nam handily defeated Jeremy Beale of Australia in two quick sets 6-2, 2-0 in the men’s tennis singles semi-finals today (June 23) at the Thailand F3 Futures.

The Vietnam Vovinam Federation held its third national congress in Ho Chi Minh City on June 22.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Junior Open 2017 starts June 22 and runs through June 25 at the Bluffs Ho Tram Strip 18-hole championship golf course in the province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, reports the Tienphong Online Newspaper.

Vietnam’s U17 football team beat their Cambodian peers 4-0 in a friendly match in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on June 21.