As many as 22 Vietnamese athletes have qualified to compete at the Beijing Olympics which will take place from 8 to 24 August

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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