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 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.

“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).

Twenty-six women players will be called in on August 23 to prepare for the 2009 Southeast Asian U16 Women Football Championship.

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.