Việt Nam News

Trần Quyết Chiến, 35, has become the first Vietnamese cueist to ever win the top prize at the Billiards World Cup after beating his countryman Ngô Đình Nại 40-39 in the final of the recent Three-Cushion Carom Billiards World Cup held in HCM City. Thanh Nga talks to him about his career

Nguyễn Ngọc Long from the central province of Thanh Hoa is one of the two Vietnamese gold medalists at the 49th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) held in Lisbon, Portugal in late July.

Shark Tank, a TV reality show for start-ups, had a pleasant shock for viewers last month in the form of Lê Hồng Thảo Quyên, CEO of ViralWorks. Quyên, 26, is one of the rare start-up entrepreneurs in the show (in its second season now) to receive investment offers from all five investors-judges, the eponymous “sharks”. She managed to raise six times the amount she had hoped for.

Võ Thị Hoàng Yến – founder of the organisation Disability Research and Capacity Development (DRD) recently won the honourable Ramson Magsaysay Award, which honours transformative leaders across Asia.

Working hard in silence, Nhất Trung is well-known for bringing several V-pop singers including Minh Hằng, Tim and Lưu Chí Vỹ to the limelight. At the peak of his music career, he suddenly took a new direction and moved into movies.  Trung speaks with Minh Thi about his tactics to further approach audiences, both by music and film.

Hoàng Nguyên, 24, is the proud owner of Bana Bakery with the famous bánh kem sầu riêng (durian cream cake) and the author of a bakery cookbook that sells like er… hot cakes. This year he plans to write a second book containing recipes for 70 cakes and an online book on traditional Vietnamese cakes in English and Vietnamese.

Modern life can be very tiring. Let’s have a seat, enjoy some good tea and chat with Nguyễn Việt Hùng, the Tea Master of Việt Nam, who won the Tea Master Cup competition in 2016, about his passion for organic tea and stories of 300-year-old tea forests in Việt Nam. Bùi Quỳnh Hoa reports.

Young writer Quách Lê Anh Khanh is known as a “publishing phenomenon” in HCM City. Since 2012, he has published a book every year, 900,000 copies of which have been sold out so far.

Acrobatic artists and brothers Giang Quốc Cơ, 24, and Giang Quốc Nghiệp, 29, were placed fifth in Britain’s Got Talent 2018 recently with their death-defying, head-balancing act of walking across tiny platforms suspended high off the ground during the show’s finale on June 3. Mỹ Phương and Phương Mai speak to them about the challenges they faced and their feelings during and after the show.

Born in Hà Nội’s Old Quarter, songwriter Nguyễn Cường is most famous for his songs about the Central Highlands region. The 75-year-old  has just released his debut album entitled Tùng Dương Sings Songs by Nguyễn Cường. The veteran songwriter talks with Thúy Hằng about his newly born ‘offspring’ and his simple life with little need for money.

Many people sneered when he opened his first co-working space on Tràng Thi Street in Hà Nội. Years have passed, and Dương Đỗ’s ambition has come true, and his Toong co-working space has become a smashing success, even spawning copycats.

Trần Duy Quang, 29, has only been running for three years but has already won a number of events. He triumphed in the men’s 70km category of the Dalat Ultra Trail International Marathon in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng in March and is the first Vietnamese runner to win the Việt Nam Mountain Marathon in Sa Pa, Lào Cai Province, which is one of the largest ultra-running events in Asia and a landmark event in Southeast Asia. Thanh Nga catches up with him.

Professor Dr. Trịnh Văn Minh of the Việt Nam National University, Hà Nội and President of the Regional Committee of Experts of l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) (Francophone Universities Association) in Asia Pacific was given in March the Honour Award of the Group of Francophone Embassies, Delegations and Institutions in Việt Nam (GADIF) for his important contributions to the development of the French language, and the values of Francophonie.

Pianist Lưu Đức Anh took a break from his studying in Sweden to return to Việt Nam to perform at the end of March. Winner of numerous top prizes at piano concerts, the 25-year-old was recently honoured as one of the 10 outstanding young citizens of Việt Nam in 2017. He spoke to Bảo Hoa about his music practice and MAESTOSO – a classical music group he co-founded.

Twenty-three year old Nguyễn Thị Tâm made history as the first Vietnamese female boxer to win an Asian title in HCM City last year. Thanh Nga spoke with her.

From a little girl who was clueless about sports for 21 years, Lê Phương Vy has come a long way. She is the first Vietnamese female athlete in the 18-24 age group to complete Ironman 140.6, one of the most difficult triathlons in the world.