Budapest, Hungary, June 18, 2019: The International Judo Federation welcomed leaders from the Judo Federation of Vietnam and the Vietnam Sports Administration to its Presidential Office in Budapest for the first time on Tuesday, June 11, and signed two agreements.

Vietnam won three gold medals and set records at the Taiwan Open Athletics Championships 2019 which closed on May 26, 2019.

On April 29, 2019, the Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc signed the Decree 36/2019 / ND-CP detailing a number of articles of the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Sport and Physical training laws. In particular, specific regulations on regimes and policies to implement the rights of athletes and elite sports coaches; conditions for conducting businesses related to sports activities of professional sports clubs as well as for enterprises. This Decree takes effect from June 14, 2019.

Kuwait, April 22, 2019: The President of the Olympic Council of Asia, H.E. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, has expressed his shock and grief at the devastating loss of life in the series of bomb attacks to hit Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.

15-year-old Vietnamese weightlifter, Do Tu Tung, made a strong start at the 2019 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Youth World Championships, which opened in Las Vegas, USA, on March 8 (local times), bringing home three gold medals and setting three youth world records in the men's 49kg division.