Coach Park Hang-seo of Vietnam and Zoran Jankovic of Thailand said winning a friendly tournament is not important but they want to win the third-place match on December 15 in Buriram.

 Le Quang Liem of Vietnam could only improve his standing to No 7, in the second leg of the blitz chess at the International Mind Sports Association Elite Games.

 Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem ranked ninth after 11 rounds of the blitz chess event during the International Mind Sports Association Elite Games.

 Vietnam ranked third overall at the 16th Asian Finswimming Championship which closed in China on December 12.

 Pham Quoc Cuong won the Binh Duong Television Cycling Tournament, which ended on Tuesday.

Vietnamese Grandmaster (GM), Le Quang Liem, won a bronze medal at the second International Mind Sports Association Elite Games, ongoing in Huai’an City, Jiangshu, China.

 Vietnam has a chance to enter the final of the M-150 Cup friendly football tournament in Thailand after Uzbekistan tied with Myanmar 2-2 in Group B activity on December 11.

 Phan Van Tuan of Vietnam took gold for the second day in a row after winning the men’s 800m surface at the Asian Junior Finswimming Competition on December 12 in China.

 Vietnam is in Group A at the Asian Futsal Championship 2018, according to an announcement by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on December 12.

 Vietnam’s U19 team drew 1-1 with Myanmar in the first match of the Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper’s International U21 Football Tournament in Can Tho on December 12.

 Vietnam finished third at the first Asian Boules Sport Confederation Petanque Championship in Thailand with two silvers and one bronze.

 Vietnam bagged five gold medals at the Asian Rowing Cup 2017, which closed on December 10 in Palembang, Indonesia.

 The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee convened its 19th session in Hanoi on December 11 to review outcomes of the fourth sitting of the 14th NA and discuss preparations for the next meeting. 

 This year the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho will host the Thanh Nien Newspaper International U21 Football Tournament for the second time since 2014.

 Fourteen-year-old Doan Xuan Khue Minh became Viet Nam’s youngest athlete to win the National Women’s Amateur Golf Championship on Sunday.

Shooters Hoang Xuan Vinh, Tran Quoc Cuong and Nguyen Dinh Thanh brought home a bronze medal for Vietnam at the 10th Asian Airgun Championships in Wako, Japan.

 Vietnam have taken one silver and one bronze medal in the technique category on the first day of the 2017 Asian Petanque Championships which is taking place in Thailand’s capital of Bangkok on December 10-11.

 Vietnamese trio -- Tran Quoc Cuong, Hoang Xuan Vinh and Nguyen Dinh Thanh -- won a bronze medal at the 10th Asian Air gun Championship in Japan on Sunday.

 Vietnam have found themselves in a tough group at the 2018 Women’s Asian Cup, after a draw held on Saturday in Jordan.

 Viet Nam beat Myanmar 4-0 in their first match at the M-150 Cup’s Group B, a friendly tournament for U23s, in Thailand, on Saturday.