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The HCM City People's Committee is giving priority to building 10 amusement parks and three cultural centres for children this year.

Entertainment and recreational facilities for children in HCM City are unable to meet the increasing and diverse demands of children because they are hampered by funding and personnel shortages, officials say.

With the current situation, it was difficult to develop infrastructure and equipment for facilities catering to 1.7 million city children as well as 2.4 million teenagers, not to mention 600,000 disabled children, Nguyen Thanh Rum, director of the city's Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said at seminar held by the city People's Council last week.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met voters of Kien Thuy district in the northern port city of Hai Phong on Oct. 18, to listen to their opinions and aspirations prior to the eighth session of the 12 th National Assembly.

More than 150 overseas Vietnamese (OV) delegates from 14 French cities and provinces gathered at a meeting in Paris on Sept. 8 to discuss solutions to develop Vietnam’s tourism sector.

The Vietnam Folk Arts Association announced 2,000 research projects on the folk culture of Vietnamese ethnic groups at a press briefing in Hanoi on Aug. 31.

A festival for exceptional young people from the movement to “follow Uncle Ho’s advice” in the Red River Delta will be held in Hanoi from May 7-9, said the Secretary of Hanoi’s Youth Union, Ngo Duy Hieu.