VOV.VN - Vietnamese weightlifter Le Van Cong won a silver medal on August 26 in the 49 kg weight category at the ongoing 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.

VOV.VN - Vietnam sent 18 promising athletes to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, although they failed to win any medal at the global sporting competition.

VOV.VN - All four Vietnamese students have won medals, including a gold, at the 2021 International Biology Olympiad (IBO) which was virtually held by Portugal, according to the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET).

VOV.VN - Vietnamese student Tran Duong Chinh, a 12th grader at Hung Vuong Gifted High School, won a gold medal whilst competing at the 2021 European Physics Olympiad (EuPhO), which has been taking place in an online format.

VOV.VN - All four Vietnamese students have clinched four silver medals at the International Informatics Olympiad 2021 virtually held by Singapore, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany held a ceremony in Berlin on June 10 to present Vietnam’s Friendship Order and Friendship Medal to two German friends in honour of their active contributions to strengthening solidarity, friendship and people-to-people exchange between the two peoples.

VOV.VN - All eight Vietnamese students who competed in the 2021 Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) have finished the competition with medals, including two golds, according to the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET).

VOV.VN - Four out of the five Vietnamese students competing at the Nordic-Baltic Physics Olympiad (NBPhO) have won medals, including one gold, two silvers, and one bronze.

VOV.VN - Two Vietnamese contestants participating in the Asia Pacific Mechatronics Skills Competition have won a gold medal during the event held on April 8 in an online format.

Former Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, who took the famous ‘napalm girl’ photo, received the National Medal of Arts at the White House on January 13 for his decades of contributions to wartime photojournalism.