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Youths with love for classical music

VietNamNet Bridge – Young people, especially those in vibrant Saigon, have easy access to new global trends of music. While a majority of young people are fond of EDM, pop and hiphop, some have deep passion for classical music

Cycling expedition promotes handwritten letters

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two 25-year-old men are cycling across the country to deliver 100 handwritten letters to raise people's awareness of the need to express feelings through handwritten letters.

HCM City to provide vocational training, jobs for youth

VietNamNet Bridge – Employment services and vocational training centres overseen by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union will provide job training to 20,000 young people and jobs to another 25,000 youth this year.

Botox 'may stunt emotional growth' in young people

 Giving young people Botox treatment may restrict their emotional growth, experts warn.

Young people flock to chicken breeding

 VietNamNet Bridge – At a sidewalk cafe in Ha Noi, when people are gossiping or immersed in their smart phones, a young man sits passionately in a corner, patting a healthy rooster, resplendent in its plume and furry feathers.

Running through Vietnam to promote reading culture

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese information technology (IT) engineer has finished a long arduous trans-Vietnam journey, running more than 1,700km from north to south in less than 35 days to instil reading culture in young people.

Class nurtures love for cheo opera

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twice a week, a group of more than 20 young people gathers together to learn and practise Ly Truong Me Dop  – an excerpt from the famous cheo (Vietnamese traditional opera) repertoire Quan Am Thi Kinh.

Authorities seek to control viral internet series

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Cinematography Department is considering how to handle possible violations in the film “Apartment 69″ which has gone viral and stirred up controversy over its content.

HCM City youth show surprise taste in music

 VietNamNet Bridge – A revolutionary-music singing contest has attracted a large number of young people in HCM City, where romantic songs rule the roost, taking some by surprise.

Troupe works to keep traditional music alive

 VietNamNet Bridge – Artists from HCM City's Bong Sen Music and Dance troupe will bring traditional music to the city's schools in an attempt to arrest the music's declining popularity among young people.

Unique, special gifts on Valentine’s Day

 VietNamNet Bridge – The gift market is heating up as Valentine’s Day draws near. Shops are marketing innovative products for those in love.

The portrait of Vietnam’s young townsfolk

In Hanoi, it is very common to see young people sitting in a coffee shop or on the sidewalk. They can sit on plastic chairs to eat noodles or put their legs on a rattan-made chair to play with smartphones. But their faces are often sad...

The winter specialties of Hanoi

 VietNamNet Bridge – The following is a list of some of the most typical snack foods that have become a part of winter in Hanoi.

Vietnam, China leaders hail progress in relations

 VietNamNet Bridge – Top Vietnamese and Chinese Party leaders made a phone call on January 22, acknowledging considerable progress in the two countries’ relations in 2013.

Vietnamese youth pay big money on powerful computers to mine bitcoins

 VietNamNet Bridge – One needs to spend at least hundreds of millions of dong to have the machines powerful enough to “dig” bitcoins and tens of millions of dong more every month to run the machines.

Nobel laureates call to inspire young people for new ideas

 Nobel chemistry prize winners Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus on Saturday called for "more attention and efforts" to young people to help foster new ideas.

In photos: Vietnamese youth play on Halloween

 VietNamNet Bridge – At 6pm on October 30, at major recreation centers in Hanoi, thousands of young people began participating in the Haloween. Some pictures of the festival in Hanoi.

Young people fail to budget money wisely

VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Chi Mai, 26, has been struggling to pay off her credit cards after an impromptu spending spree three years ago. The money she has borrowed has now reached nearly VND100mil - rather a lot of credit for someone her age

EU leaders pledge job funds, back new budget

European leaders on Friday agreed to deploy 8.0 billion euros ($10.4 billion) to help create jobs for young people at a summit that also backed a tentative deal on the EU's next trillion-euro budget, despite simmering doubts.

Unusual jobs of young people in Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge – “Leasing the body,” delivering food at night, reading books ... are the jobs that some young people in Hanoi and HCM City do during their free times.