Next Media has won the broadcast rights for the four matches of Vietnam's qualification campaign for the 2022 World Cup to be played on home turf.

A 103-strong team of Vietnam, the biggest of its kind, took part in the opening ceremony of the 11th ASEAN Schools Games in Semarang, Indonesia, on July 18.

The Vietnamese national men's football team will be in Group G together with other regional football power houses, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates, according to result of the drawing for the elimination round for Asia for the World Cup 2022.

The 2019 Southeast Asian Amateur Golf Team Championship will be held in the northern province of Vinh Phuc from July 24 to 27.

Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem won the World Open chess tournament which concluded in Philadelphia, the US, on July 7.

The Cai Rang floating market in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho will host a Culture and Tourism Festival from July 6-8.

Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien on June 27 expressed his hope that the Republic of Korea (RoK) will advance from the second biggest source of tourists to Vietnam to the largest one in the future.

Foreign ministers of ASEAN member countries agreed to launch a joint bid to host the World Cup 2034 - the biggest sporting event on the planet, according to Thailand’s Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai.

‘A O Lang Pho’, one of the most well-known Vietnamese bamboo circus shows, has wowed Australians at the Sydney Opera House, becoming the first Vietnamese art show be introduced at this iconic theatre.

Several foreign sport newspapers have expressed their regret for Vietnam who lost the Kings' Cup to Curacao after penalty shootouts in Thailand on June 8.

The 15th Southern Fruit Festival will take place from June 1-August 31 in Ho Chi Minh City, said the HCM City Tourism Department.

Vietnam’s culinary culture festival opened at the Hanoi-Moscow complex (Incentra) in Moscow on May 24 as a highlight of the Vietnam Year in Russia and Russia Year in Vietnam 2019.