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January 30, 2008
Last Thursday, 24 January 2008, World Footy News ran a story on “Australia Day Footy” around the World. The story included a plug for the Vietnam Swans participation in the Experience Australia Day event in Hanoi: This Saturday, 26th January […]
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January 30, 2008
The Hanoi contingent of the Vietnam Swans stole the Australia Day Show last weekend at the Melia Hotel – well, at least according to the Swans Blog. In other words, more precisely from Ms Hoang Van Anh from Australia Education […]
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January 24, 2008
This Saturday, 26 January 2008, you will be able to experience Australia Day in the Grand Ballroom of Hanoi’s Melia Hotel. It starts at 9am and won’t conclude until the day has transformed itself into night. During the day, the Vietnam Swans will put […]
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January 3, 2008
At the Tri Nations Tournament held in Hanoi in November 2007, the Swans raffled off a 4.5 liter mega bottle of Jim Beam as part of Movember. The footballers and netballers from Vietnam, Thailand and Laos raised 5 million Vietnamese Dong […]
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December 31, 2007
2007 was a big year for the Swannies. Below are some of the highlights: – It was the year that Hanoi and Saigon combined to form a national team, the Vietnam Swans. – The Vietnam Swans then made our inaugural […]
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December 12, 2007
A couple of weeks ago, JASPAS in Saigon held it’s monthly Spam Cham which involves drinks, nibblies and a raffle. All money raised goes to the Loreto Vietnam Australia Program which is involved in 9 major projects assisting over 3,000 […]
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December 7, 2007
Last weekend Pacey Stacey tried one of those fun runs at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat. He had to run 21km. Not only was he successful in completing the run, he also managed to pulverise the 2 hour barrier. Scott finished in […]
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November 30, 2007
Swans Captain, Gus McEwin was just one of the boys to grow a mo for Movember and the Tri Nations tournament. Raising awareness for men’s health issues was the objective and judging from the raised eye brows when people saw the […]
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November 28, 2007
At the recent Tri Nations Footy/Netball weekend, the Swans raised 4.5 million Vietnamese Dong ($US 280) from the raffle of a mega 4.5 litre bottle of Jim Beam (our Club Sponsor). It was all part of “Movember” where a number […]
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November 15, 2007
As previously mentioned, this weekend, a number of the players from the Vietnam Swans, Thailand Tigers and Lao Elephants will be sporting new look moustaches. It’s all in the name of “Movember” to raise awareness for men’s health issues back […]
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November 13, 2007
Fancy a souvenir T shirt from this historic and amazing weekend coming up? I’m not surprised. The netballers have come up with the design to the left to commemorate the weekend. 100 t shirts have been made and will be […]
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November 2, 2007
Anyone feel like growin’ a mo in the month of Movember? Two Swans have contacted the hierarchy about Movember – Saigon’s Clint Muzza and Quang Nghi’s Sam the Man of “Red Footy Boots with a Yellow Star” fame at the […]
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October 31, 2007
Boonie has been just one of the people who have helped make the ‘tache famous. And, kicking off tomorrow, is the month of Movember and it might just be that you start seeing some of your favourite Swans players sporting […]
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October 18, 2007
Yesterday, Kevan Dacey who had been the Acting Austrade Commissioner (Saigon) for the previous 6 months, departed Vietnam for Australia for the last time in that position. Kev first met the Swans when we participated in Austrade’s Australian Schools Open Day back in May. […]
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July 23, 2007
Now that we’ve got the Asian Champs out of the way, the Vietnam Swans can really get started. Here’s a taste of what’s coming up: Saturday 1 September: Vietnam Swans Vs Hong Kong Dragons, HCMC Saturday 29 September: 2007 AFL […]
