The Southeast Asian Shooting Association Championship (SEASA) 2016 will kick off from November 1-12 in Hanoi, announced by the Vietnam Shooting Federation at a press conference on October 27.
Vietnam’s shooting star Hoang Xuan Vinh remains in the top spot of the world men’s 10m air pistol October rankings of the International Shooting Sport Federation.
Police of Yen Bai province late on August 18 commenced legal proceeding against an extremely serious shooting that killed two senior officials of the northern mountainous locality.
As of August 19, Vietnam was ranked 45th in the medal table of the Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil with one gold and one silver, both won by shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh.
The two victims of the shooting in the northern province of Yen Bai died at Yen Bai General Hospital on August 18, according to a news conference held by the province on the same day.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc made a trip to the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai on August 18 following a shooting targeting two local leaders the same day.
Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh on August 10 won the second medal for Vietnam at the ongoing Rio Olympics in Brazil, coming second in the men’s 50-metre pistol shooting event.
Olympian winner Hoang Xuan Vinh will hunt for his second gold medal, this time in the men’s 50m pistol event on August 10 night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Hoang Xuan Vinh has made history when he secured a gold in the men’s 10m air pistol event at the Rio Olympics on August 6, becoming the first Vietnamese to win an Olympic gold medal.
Vietnam aims to win one or two medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with highest hope pinned on weightlifters Thach Kim Tuan and Nguyen Thi Huyen and marksman Hoang Xuan Vinh.
No Vietnamese have been reported to be victims in the shooting in Munich city, Germany, on July 23, which left many casualties, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Officials from the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand on July 11 worked with the police in Thailand’s Songkhla province on protection procedures for 15 fishermen who have been detained since July 8.
Thai naval forces have opened fire on three Vietnamese fishing boats from the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre with 18 fishermen on board, according to the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand.