• Photo exhibition on female athletes underway to welcome SEA Games 31

    A photo exhibition on well-known Vietnamese female athletes is underway at Hanoi’s Vietnamese Women’s Museum to welcome the ongoing 31st Southeast Asian Games.
  • Vietnamese women’s football leads the Southeastern Asia

    There has been little change in the FIFA women’s football rankings in the first quarter this year. The Vietnamese team still leads the Southeastern Asian region and is No. 32 in the world with 1638 points.
  • Women carry Asian Games medal hopes

    Vietnamese athletes will be competing in the Asian Games for only the second time when the biggest sporting event of the region kicks off in China this November.
  • Women's tourney kicks off next week

    The National Women's Football Championship will kick off next Monday in the northern province of Ha Nam.
  • Vietnamese Women’s Chess ranks 22nd in the world

    Vietnam is placed 22nd in the world women’s chess rankings with international Grand Masters and six masters and an average Elo rating of 2251, according to the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

  • VN women’s football team 32nd in world rankings

    The International Football Federation (FIFA) has announced that the Vietnamese national women’s football team ranks 32nd in the world table.
  • Women football team wins international

    The Vietnam women’s football team won the International Women’s Football Tournament TKV after beating Thailand 2-0 at Cua Ong Stadium in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

  • Vietnam wins Int’l Women’s Football TKV 2009 championship

    VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam women’s football team defeated Thailand with a score of 2-0 to win the championship title in the International Women’s Football Tournament TKV 2009 in Cua Ong stadium in the northern province of Quang Ninh on October 23.

  • Karate team snags silver, bronze

    Viet Nam's Karate team won three silvers and two bronzes at the ninth Asian Karate Championship at Foshan City in Guangdong province in China.
  • Queen of Speed sets new record at National Athletics Championship

    After nearly one year of rest because of injuries, runner Vu Thi Huong on September 16 returned impressively, setting a national record in the women’s 100m race at the National Track and Field Championship 2009.
  • Vietnam win VTV Volleyball Cup

    Vietnam defeated Ucraine’s Technokom 3-0 (25-23, 27-25, 25-23) in a very thrilling final at the International Women’s Tournament-VTV Cup, winning the VTV Cup at the Buon Me Thuot Gymnasium on August 22.
  • Investing in young people is an investment in a sustainable future

    “It is often said that young people are our future. They are our present, too. It is today, and not tomorrow, that we must invest in young people and include them in solving the great challenges of our times,” Ms. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UNFPA Executive Director wrote in a message on the International Youth Day (August 12).
  • U16 women’s football team trains for regional champs

    Twenty-six women players will be called in on August 23 to prepare for the 2009 Southeast Asian U16 Women Football Championship.
  • Vietnamese beauty chosen as ambassador to 3rd Asian Indoor Games

    The organizers of the third Asian Indoor Games have selected Duong Truong Thien Ly, the favourite candidate at the 2008 Miss World contest, as an ambassador to the games.
  • Ngan snatches World Games gold

    Karakas Nguyen Hoang Ngan clinched gold in the women’s kata (performance) event at the World Games in Kaoshiung City, Taiwan yesterday, July 26.
  • VN team qualifies for finals

    The Vietnamese women’s football team qualified for the final round of the 2010 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian Cup after thrashing Hong Kong 7-0 in the final group game yesterday.
  • Truong Thanh Hang wins three silvers at Asian Grand Prix 2009

    Vietnam's Truong Thanh Hang bagged one more silver in the women's 800m race at the third round of the Asian Grand Prix 2009, held in Hong on May 30.
  • Viet Nam duo shines at aerobics World Cup

    Don’t try this at home: The SEA Games champion, duo Tran Thi Thu Ha, and Nguyen Ba Dong took gold for Viet Nam at the Sport Aerobics Suzuki World Cup Team in Tokyo
  • Vietnam to host 2009 AFC U14 Women Football Festival

    VietNamNet Bridge - 8 members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) including Australia, China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and the home country Vietnam will take part in the Festival from June 17-30.

  • Bui Thi Nhung wins a gold at Asian All Stars Athletic Competition

    Nhan Dan - High jumper Bui Thi Nhung won the gold in the women’s 1.88m high jump event at the second Asian All Stars Athletic Competition opened in Bhopal, India, on September 18.
  • 22 athletes to compete at Beijing Olympics

    As many as 22 Vietnamese athletes have qualified to compete at the Beijing Olympics which will take place from 8 to 24 August
  • Female runner Truong Thanh Hang claims third gold at Asian Grand Prix

    Vietnam’s Truong Thanh Hang won three consecutive gold medals in the women’s 1,500m, and her third gold medal was won in the last leg of the Asian Athletics Association Grand Prix in Hanoi on June 30.
  • Hanoi lead in first stage

    Securing an impressive 4-1 win over Thai Nguyen on June 30, Hanoi have taken the top place in the first leg of the National Women's Football Championship with 10 points.
  • Tram wins bronze for VN at Asian champs

    Tran Thi Ngoc Tram was the only Vietnamese to take home a medal at the Asian Taekwondo Championships in Zheng Zhou, China, on Sunday, winning bronze in the women’s over-72kg category.
  • Viet Nam advances to ASEAN women’s soccer semi-finals

    Viet Nam trounced Malaysia 9-0 in the second match of Group A on Sept. 9, booking an early berth in the semi-finals of the third ASEAN Women’s Football Championships being held in Myanmar.
  • Viet Nam checkmates women’s champs

    Vietnamese chess masters got off to a good start at the Asian Women’s Individual Chess Championships when they nearly all clinched opening wins in Tehran yesterday.
  • Global Vietnamese Pageant 2007 starts

    VietNamNet Bridge - The 2007 Global Vietnamese Pageant will take place at the Vinpearl Resort in Khanh Hoa Province’s coastal city of Nha Trang from August 22 to September 2, according to the organizing board at a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on August 20.
  • Women basket ballers squeeze past Singapore

    Ha Noi (VNA) – Viet Nam beat Singapore 74-71 in their fourth match at the Asian Women’s Backet-ball Championship on June 6. The Vietnamese women took the game to the Singaporean team from the outset, eventually taking the first set 21-20. But, Singapore came back strongly, winning the next two sets 16-14 and 21-20.
  • Vietnamese Women’s Jewellery

    Nearly 1,000 unique pieces of Vietnamese women’s jewellery were displayed at the Vietnam Women’s Museum, highlighting the variation of jewellery over the historical periods, the skills of artisans as well as the delicate aesthetics of Vietnamese women.
  • Big-name fashions flock to Vietnam

    VietNamNet Bridge – In the past several months, everyone who passes the HCM City Theatre has been impressed by a wall with the image of a young girl with curly hair and seductive smile ‘showing’ her Louis Vuitton bag