Themed "Celebrate Charming Sunshine," ABG 2014 will attract 2, 645 players from 42 countries and regions in Asia.
Vietnamese athletes will compete in 18 out of 26 sports at the games, with hopeful medals in five disciplines , namely body building, Thai Muay, Jujitsu, beach petanque and kurash, local Vietnam News daily reported on Friday quoting the administration's deputy head Lam Quang Thanh as saying.
The fifth Asian Beach Games will be held in Vietnam in 2016 , the second time for Vietnam to host an Asia level multi-sports event.
BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- A nation that boasts the largest population on the globe. The world's second-largest economy, which is still rising at astonishing rates. A top military spender with an encouraging space program and blue-water ambitions.
Any one country with all these might seem to be only steps away from becoming a hegemonic power.
But China is aiming at exactly the opposite direction.
By definition, hegemony implies domination, yet this notion runs counter to Chinese philosophical traditions that expound on "harmony without uniformity."