VOV.VN - The Vietnamese national football team concluded the year at 94th in the world, thereby being among the Top 100 sides for the sixth consecutive year, according to the rankings released on December 21 by global governing body FIFA.
VOV.VN - The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has listed the winners from throughout the history of the world blitz chess championship, including local chess player Le Quang Liem who won a title back in 2013.
Andrea Coppola, World Bank Lead Economist for Vietnam, has described Vietnam in 2023 as resilient, saying that amid the global economic slowdown, the Southeast Asian nation was still able to sustain a rate of growth that many other countries in the rest of the world can only dream about.
World Bank (WB) experts have suggested several things that Vietnam should do to attract foreign investment in the stock market at the recent Inter-Agency Seminar on Unlocking the Potential of Vietnam’s Capital Markets.
VOV.VN - The nation has been placed in 22nd position in the list of 100 best cuisines in the world, as compiled by international food magazine TasteAtlas.
VOV.VN - The Vietnamese women’s national football team have ended the year at 37th place in the FIFA rankings, the world’s football governing body announced in its latest rankings.
The first Arabic-Vietnamese dictionary made its debut at an event to mark World Arabic Language Day (December 18) held by the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Vietnam in Hanoi on December 17.
VOV.VN - The Vietnamese homepage of tech giant Google changed its Doodle on December 17, celebrating Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
VOV.VN - Doan Viet Tien on December 16 received recognition from the World Records Union (WorldKings), for drawing the highest number of abstract portrait paintings of Vietnamese and world leaders, politicians, and cultural celebrities in reverse on glass with his fingers.
The People's Committee of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has asked the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to provide technical support in developing a dossier seeking UNESCO recognition for its Kon Tum plateau as a World Biosphere Reserve.