Lee Dong-jun scored twice and Kim Dea-won added a third to help South
Korea U19s cruise to victory over Singapore U21s in the second
semi-final of the International U-21 Football Tournament.
Five Vietnamese photographers won regional and special mention prizes
at the 2015 Consultative Group to Assist the Poor photo contest,
according to results reported on the website www.cgap.org.
Vietnamese female badminton players Vu Thi Trang and Nguyen Thi Sen won
their second round ties at the Kawasaki Viet Nam International Series
2015 in Da Nang city yesterday.
Short film David and Luisa by director Bui Trung
Hai won the Bronze Remi Award at the 48th Annual WorldFest - Houston
International Film Festival in the United States.
Nguyen Thi Phuong yesterday won a gold medal and set up a national
record for women''s individual 50m 3-position event at the National Best
Marksmen Championship in Ha Noi.
Veteran cyclist Nguyen Nam Cuc of the Sai Gon Velo Team has won the
45km cycling race held annually by HCM City Television and Department of
Culture and Sports to mark the Independence Day.
Two Vietnamese badminton players won the first matches of the qualifying
round at the Yonex Sunrise Viet Nam Open Grand Prix 2015, which began
in HCM City on August 24.
A movie on one of Viet Nam''s most notorious female gangsters won the
Best Feature Southeast Asia Panorama award during the Festival of Globe
Awards 2015 held in California, the US, from August 7 to 16.
Algerian writer and journalist Kamel Daoud''s debut novel Meursault, Contre-Enquete (The
Meursault Investigation) won the Goncourt Prize (the most prestigious
French literary award) for a first novel in May, and several other
important awards.