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The Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund and its “For beloved Hoang Sa and Truong Sa” club on October 15 granted 110 scholarships to disadvantaged students in the south-central coastal province of Binh Dinh.

First Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee Le Quoc Phong held talks with head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Aleksander Bugaev in Moscow on September 24.

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong on August 27 urged young Party members to take an exemplary and pioneer role in all aspects.

The Vietnam Startup Day 2019 is underway in Ho Chi Minh City from August 23 – 24, attracting nearly 200 projects and hundreds of domestic and foreign investors from the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and Nepal.

Youth union delegations from Vietnam’s Quang Tri and Laos’s Savannakhet provinces held talks and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in Quang Tri on August 22.

The Vu A Dinh scholarship fund, Nam A Bank, VinaCapital Foundation (VCF), and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union provincial chapter of Long An presented scholarships to 120 poor students with outstanding performance during a local ceremony on August 21.

A ceremony was held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 17 to mark 20 years of the summer youth volunteer campaign.

A campaign to reduce plastic waste was launched in Huu Lung district, the northern mountainous province of Lang Son, on August 14 to raise awareness among youngsters about the damaging impact of the rubbish.

Twenty of total 37 ministries and central government agencies receiving funding from the State budget disclosed no information about expenses in 2018, a report revealed on July 30.

Nearly 300 youths in the central coastal province of Quang Binh participated in a campaign to clean up the coast in Duc Trach commune on July 29.

Vietnamese and Russian youngsters are gathering at a forum that opened in Hanoi on July 23 night.

The National Committee on Youth of Vietnam and the Russian Federal Agency for Youth Affairs on July 23 signed a cooperation agreement for the 2019-2022 period.

Forty-seven companies in the central city of Da Nang participated in a recuitment festival on July 20 where they filled more than 1,500 job vacancies.

A photo contest named “Challenge for Change” will be inviting entries from July 22 to August 25 as part of efforts to encourage actions on climate change among young people.

Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of the Committee’s Mass Mobilisation Commission Truong Thi Mai hosted a reception in Hanoi on July 11 for a delegation from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) led by Rodbexa Poleo, first secretary of the PSUV’s Youth Organisation.

The Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCM CYU) held a ceremony in HCM City on June 16 to honour children from disadvantaged circumstances who reaped outstanding academic results in 2019.

A delegation from the National Assembly of Vietnam attended the Women Deliver 2019 Conference in Vancouver, Canada, from June 3-6 at the invitation of the Plan International – a humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

Young volunteers across Vietnam are planning to fix and build about 4,300km of roads, carry out coastal clean-ups at 400 locations and plant at least 2.5 million trees during this summer.

A campaign entitled “Act for Children” was launched in Hanoi on June 1, the International Children’s Day, with the goal of stopping school violence and child abuse through raising awareness of families, schools and the community.

As many as 70 young people from across the nation departed from Cam Ranh international port in the central province of Khanh Hoa for the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago on May 20 as part of the “Youth Journey for National Sea and Islands” programme.