Việt Nam focuses on Olympic events at SEA Games 31

Việt Nam will focus on Olympic sports at the 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games to be held in Hà Nội next year.

Grandmaster Chiếu passes away after spectacular vovinam life

Chiếu, the top master in vovinam in the world since achieving the highest-level while belt dan for masters in 2015, reportedly died at his home in District 8, HCM City.

Athletes compete at World Vovinam Championship

The sixth World Vovinam Championship is being held from December 16-22.

International vovinam event opens in Egypt

More than 80 martial artists from Japan, Algeria, Iraq, Sudan and Egypt took part in the Ambassador Cup International Festival of Vovinam (Vietnamese Martial Arts) in Egypt over the weekend.

Traditional martial arts to be performed next week About 1,500 athletes will take part in the Hà Nội Open Traditional Martial Arts Tournament which will be held on 9-11 August.

National Youth Vovinam Champs opens in Hậu Giang The event aims to boost the popularity of vovinam and will run until June 19.

MMA may be coming to Viet Nam Việt Nam has a rich martial arts culture with many styles such as Vovinam, Bình Định Gia and Tây Sơn Võ Đạo.

Athletes take gold at Vietnamese Traditional Martial Arts World Cup Việt Nam won eight gold medals at the Vietnamese Traditional Martial Arts World Cup, which closed in the French city of Marseille on Sunday.

National Vovinam Champs starts in Gia Lai

The National Vovinam (Vietnamese traditional martial arts) Championship opened in the Central Highlands Province of Gia Lai on Thursday.

More than just martial arts Vovinam is one of the many martial arts practised in Vietnam, and not just by the Vietnamese. As martial arts go, it is relatively new and only been around for the past 80 years. But vovinam is much more than just self-defence.