National film fest ends without best picture
The 17th Vietnam Film Festival ended Saturday in Phu Yen Province without finding any feature movie to award Best Picture.

The 17th Vietnam Film Festival ended Saturday in Phu Yen Province without finding any feature movie to award Best Picture.
The tournament following the last month’s SEA Games is scheduled to kick off next week with some 2,000 athletes expected to join competing in 11 sports
Vietnamese who won gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia early this month received VND5 million (US$220) each from sponsors in a ceremony on Tuesday.
Tran Vuong Mai Khanh won a silver medal in the girls' U-8 category at the World Youth Chess Championships in Brazil on Sunday.
After 11 days of competition, Viet Nam held third position in the medal tally with 96 golds, 90 silvers and 100 bronzes at the 26th Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia yesterday.
A 76-year-old grandmother has bagged two silver medals at the Southeast Asian Games -- the oldest person to make the podium at this year's competition
Nguyen Thanh Phuc won the gold medal in the women's 20km walk at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games being held in Jakarta and Palembang yesterday.
Despite many changes in personnel, Vietnamese weightlifters are still targeting two gold medals and an Olympic berth from the upcoming SEA Games in Indonesia.
Vietnamese futsal (indoor football) players will be back in action and aiming to win at least a silver medal at the SEA Games in Indonesia next month.
Vietnamese martial artists won one silver and one bronze medals at the ongoing World Wushu Championships in Ankara , Turkey .
The very first meeting from the ASEAN task pressure on mental health has been heldin Hanoi from May 23-25, with associates from regional and globalorganisations participating. Addressing the openingceremony, Deputy Minister of Public Health, Nguyen Thi Xuyen stated theevent offers nations an opportunity to share good practices in protectingmental health, adding to strengthening cooperation within the regionand fulfilling the aim of “Healthy people, healthy ASEAN”. Xuyen known as on nations to
Forty-two kids with harelips and cleft palates within the two CentralHighlands provinces of Dak Nong and Dak Lak have obtained free check-upsand procedures. The programme for poor children inremote and ethnic minority areas, worth about 500 million VND, wascarried out and based on the Center for Research and Aid forOperation Smile (OSCA) at Dak Nong province’s general hospital from May19-21. OSCA Director Bui Tu Anh stated this isthe very first time the center provides free check-ups and surgical