An exchange programme between the youth of Ho Chi Minh City and students from Laos and Cambodia studying in the city was held in the southern metropolis on January 12.

Participating young people of Ho Chi Minh City are working for the agencies in charge of foreign affairs, like the municipal Department for Foreign Affairs and the HCM City Union of Friendship Organisations.

A wide range of activities were organised for the 300 participants, including a friendly football match, a photographic exhibition on the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia relationship, and an art performance festival.

During the event, the Youth Unions of the municipal Department for Foreign Affairs and the HCM City Union of Friendship Organisations were twinned with the Lao Students Association and the Cambodian Students Association.-VNA