31st SEA Games preparations to go full swing in January – POC chief

Glendale G. Rosal 12/27/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines— The preparations for the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) will go full swing in January, according to Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino, Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) chief, on Sunday. Tolentino announced that the preparations for the…

SEA Games in Vietnam postponed due to COVID-19 concerns

Glendale G. Rosal 07/08/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Bad news for Filipino athletes, who are grinding themselves in training for the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEAG), after the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President and Congressman Abraham Bambol Tolentino announced its postponement…

Triathlete Remolino, Marathon Queen Tabal hoping SEA Games will push through

Glendale G. Rosal 06/27/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Two of the Philippines’ top bets in the upcoming 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEAG), Cebuano triathlete Andrew Kim Remolino and Marathoner Mary Joy Tabal are crossing their fingers that the meet will push…

Vietnam mulls postponing SEAG opening due to recent rise in COVID-19 cases

Glendale G. Rosal 06/25/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines— Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam, the host country of the 31st Southeast Asian Games, is mulling to move the Games’ opening from November this year to July next year. Philippine Olympic Committee…

Hungary training helps Cebuana gymnast prepare for SEAG 

Dale Rosal 06/01/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Cebuana gymnast Daniela Reggie Dela Pisa takes a short break after four months of rigid training in Budapest, Hungary, under the tutelage of two-time Olympian Dora Vass. The 17-year-old Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) gold medalist is…

Minglanilla cyclist eyes Vietnam SEAG ticket

Glendale G. Rosal 05/21/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Jonel Carcueva, one of Cebu’s top cyclists and a mainstay of Team Go For Gold, is rigorously training as he guns for a slot in the national cycling team for this November’s 31st…

Vietnam to bar non-vaccinated delegates from 31st SEAG

Glendale G. Rosal 05/19/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) organizing committee will be enforcing a strict “No vaccine, no participation” policy for all participants of the 31st SEA Games in Hanoi, Vietnam from November 21 to December…

Tourism and the Vietnamese Challenge

Jobers R. Bersales 10/03/2018

For a country supposedly on the grip of authoritarian, one-party communist rule, Vietnam continues to defy the stereotype. Its openness to the world and its pursuit of the market economy (some would call this patent capitalist revisionism)…

Street race in Hanoi could lead Formula One’s Asia expansion

AP 04/25/2018

TOKYO — Formula One is expected to add more races in Asia including a street circuit in the capital of Vietnam, a country with little auto-racing history that is on the verge of getting a marquee event.…

Vietnam asks PH to extend rice deal

08/07/2016

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh said Vietnam and the Philippines should consider extending their rice trade deal, which will expire at the end of this year, for a new period…

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