Vietnam's youth chess team ranked third after securing 10 gold, 16 silver, and 15 bronze medals at the 2024 Asian Youth Chess Championship held in Kazakhstan from June 9-21, the Vietnam Chess Federation announced on June 21.
Vietnam has moved up two places to 55th in the list of the world's 60 most innovative economies compiled by Bloomberg, but lags far behind Asian peers.
Embracing ASEAN has internationalised Vietnam, while Vietnam has also contributed to ASEAN’s miracle, a Malaysian scholar has said on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Vietnam’s admission to the ASEAN (July 28, 1995).
Vietnam has received more than 1.5 million international tourists in January, a year-on-year increase of 5 percent, the General Statistics Office announced on January 29.
Delegates from the ASOSAI shared their experience in environmental auditing for sustainable development at a symposium that took place on Sep 20 in Hanoi as part of the ongoing 14th ASOSAI Assembly.
In the first 10 months of this year, the Republic of Korea, Japan and China’s Taiwan were the top foreign investors in Dong Nai province, one of the industrial hubs in southern Vietnam.
Vietnam ended in fourth place at the Asian SMM 18th Asian Women’s U19 Volleyball Championship after losing to Thailand in the third-place playoff in Thailand on July 31.
Vietnam’s Under-19 football team has been drawn in Group B at the Asian U19 Football Championship 2016, which will take place in Bahrain from October 13-30.
Unseeded Vietnam are in Group A, along with Thailand and No 8 seed Sri Lanka, at the Asian U19 Women’s Volleyball Championships, according to the event’s draw.
