Viet Nam dominate regional table tennis tourney

Viet Nam finished with five gold medals at the Southeast Asian Table Tennis Championships in Marikina city, in the Philippines.

HCM City-born Mai Hoang My Trang took a crucial win over Beh Lee Wei of Malaysia in the women's singles final before taking another gold in the team event on Wednesday night.

Earlier, Trang and her teammate Mai Xuan Hang also won the women's doubles event.

Olympian Doan Kien Quoc and Tran Tuan Quynh won gold in the men's doubles for Viet Nam after taking the title in the men's team event.

Viet Nam dominated the championships in the absence of top international stars such as Gao Ning and Yang Xi of Singapore.

Disciplines named for 2014 SEA Games

Karate had been included on the schedule for the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea in 2014, announced Vu Son Ha, head of the national sports administration's karate department.

The martial art and cricket were the last two sports to be selected by the Olympic Council of Asia after a meeting in Oman on Tuesday.

The Incheon Asian Games Organising Committee plans to host 35 sports, including 28 Olympic sports as well as baseball, bowling, kabaddi, sepak takraw, soft ball and wushu.

The national sports administration also selected karate as one of 10 key sports that would receive special investment as part of a 2011-20 strategy.

New season of the V-League to kick off in January

Defending champions Ha Noi T&T will meet Hoa Phat Ha Noi in the opening match of the V-League on January 22.

The new season will see 14 teams competing for a cash-prize of VND3 billion (US$150,000) in the national championship.

The most anticipated match of the first round will see 2008 champions Da Nang battling it out against two-time champions Hoang Anh Gia Lai at Chi Lang Stadium.

Yesterday, Dec 15, Eximbank officially signed a 3-year sponsorship deal with the national V-League worth a total of VND90 billion ($4.5million).

The Viet Nam Football Federation said it would officially announce that cable TV provider Audio Visual Global (AVG) won the exclusive television rights to the V-League in a ceremony on Saturday.

Capital's fencers take golds at SEA Champs

Young Hanoian fencers have bagged six golds at the on-going Southeast Asian Youth Fencing Championships in Brunei.

Nguyen Thanh Van clinched a gold medal in the women's individual epee, while Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan added another in the sabre.

Le Thi Bich and Nguyen Tien Nhat also took golds in the women's foil and men's sabre late on Tuesday.

There was more success for Viet Nam in the team events, with the men's team winning the sabre and the women taking the epee gold.

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