VOV.VN - Vietnam could lose the opportunity to defend more than 20 gold medals at the 2027 SEA Games in Malaysia after organisers finalised a programme of 43 sports and 473 medal events, excluding eight sports in which Vietnamese athletes won 24 gold medals at the previous edition.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Lam Thi Phuong Thanh has congratulated Vietnam’s delegation after swimmer Do Thanh Hai won the country’s first gold medal at the 5th Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.

VOV.VN - Vietnam finished the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games (ASIAD) with three gold medals and 25 medals overall, falling short of its target of at least four golds and finishing fifth among Southeast Asian nations.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese national bodybuilding team clinched first place overall at the 58th Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships in Thailand, bringing home 12 gold medals.

VOV.VN - Vietnam will send a 498-member delegation, including 348 athletes, to the 20th Asian Games (ASIAD 20) in Japan targeting four to six gold medals and a top-20 overall finish.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese pickleball has won its first women’s gold medal on the PPA Tour Asia after Ho Thi Truc Tam and Sophia Huynh Tran captured the women’s doubles title at the Shenzhen Open 2026.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has won several awards at the 2026 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship and the 2026 Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) World Championship, highlighting the strong performance of its students in international digital skills competitions.

VOV.VN - All five groups from the Vietnamese delegation earned gold medals at the 15th World Invention Creativity Olympic (WICO), held from July 16 to 18 at Seoul National University of Education in the Republic of Korea (RoK).

VOV.VN - Vietnam's youth chess team won two gold medals on the opening day of the 2026 Asian Youth Chess Championship in Shenzhen, China, on July 16.

A feature film co-produced by Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK), inspired by the life of Vietnam's first Olympic gold medalist Hoang Xuan Vinh, was officially launched on June 29, underscoring growing cinematic cooperation between the two countries.