Culture - Sports

Vietnam's football tournaments could possibly resume from the middle of next month if the necessary conditions are ensured, regarding the control of the COVID-19 pandemic and the permission from authorised agencies.

The 2020 Vesak Festival will be broadcast live on Youtube, Facebook, Butta and Phatsuonline, as well as An Vien TV due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism issued a decision on April 8 to approve the organisation of the ASEAN Film Week in celebration of Vietnam's ASEAN Chairmanship this year.

Vietnamese midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai has joined other continental footballers in the Asian Football Confederation's Break The Chain campaign to raise awareness about the coronavirus pandemic.

The 2020 ASEAN Para Games have been postponed to October 3 - 9 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Euro 2020 soccer tournament has been postponed until 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak, European soccer's governing body UEFA said in a statement on Tuesday.

Vietnam won three gold, three silver and two bronze medals to rank second overall, behind the Russian team, at the Bangkok 2020 Asia Cup, leg 1, which took place in Thailand's capital city from March 8 to 14.

Nguyen Van Duong became the first Vietnamese boxer to qualify for the Olympics after knocking down his Thai opponent Chatchai-decha Butdee in Jordan on March 9 to make it through to the Tokyo 2020 Games this summer.

Due to the worldwide impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Asian Football Federation (AFC) has officially decided to postpone all matches in March and June related to FIFA World Cup 2022 qualifiers in Asia following recent discussions with FIFA.

Activities within this year's annual festival of the Hung Kings' Temple, which falls on April 2, will be cancelled due to the acute respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), according to authorities of the northern province of Phu Tho.

The 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) promises to be completely different from the previous editions, and Vietnam will be a pioneer country in organising a SEA Games version with the largest number of Olympic sports thus far, a Vietnamese sport official said.

The Binh Duong International Women Cycling Tournament - Biwase Cup 2020, the largest of its kind in Vietnam, will kick off in the southern province of Binh Duong on February 28.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has confirmed that the Golden Stars will play an international friendly match against Kyrgyzstan at either Thong Nhat Stadium (Ho Chi Minh City) or Go Dau Stadium (Binh Duong province) on March 26.

Vietnam wrapped up their campaign in the third qualification round for the 2020 Olympic women's football tournament as the Group A runners-up after succumbing to a 0-3 defeat against the Republic of Korea (RoK) at the Jeju World Cup Stadium on February 9.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued a decision on the publication of an additional 11 national intangible cultural heritage.

Hoang Thi Duyen delivered a supreme display in the women's 59kg weight class on January 29 to help the Vietnamese weightlifting team wrap up their World Cup campaign in Rome, Italy, with a sparkling tally of ten gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

The swimming team scored a big win at the 2019 Victory Cup, with swimmers Nguyen Huy Hoang and Nguyen Thi Anh Vien being named the Athletes of the Year during a gala in Hanoi on January 15.

Vietnam had a goalless match against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in their Group D of the ongoing 2020 AFC U23 Championship, which took place in Thailand's Buriram province on January 10.

Vietnam U23 team's captain, Nguyen Quang Hai, has expressed his confidence in joining his teammates to play their best at the 2020 AFC U23 Championship, which will kick-start in Thailand in a couple of days.