VOV.VN - Young Vietnamese player Nguyen Hong Nhung on August 31 won a gold medal at the U16 FIDE Online Cadets & Youth Rapid World Cup 2021.

The 12th National Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) is set to take place in Hanoi in December next year, with the participation of 250 guests and 1,000 official delegates.

The Youth Social Work Centre under the Vietnam Youth Federation on August 23 launched a call centre supporting COVID-19 prevention and control (1900 638 090) with multi-functions: Community emergency, Home hospital, Patient treatment medicine bag, Oxygen ATM, Relief food and Free burial.

Young Vietnamese players are competing at the 2021 FIDE Online Cadets & Youth Rapid World Cup and seven of them have already advanced to the final round of the tournament.

Vietnamese businessman and doctor have been honoured as outstanding young leaders of Asia in 2021 by Asian Youth Council (AYC) for their significant contributions to the community.

The Vietnam Youth Initiative Programme – InnoCity 2021 will be officially launched at a ceremony held in both in-person and online forms on August 19.

For the first time, a representative of Vietnamese youth has attended and delivered a speech at a special plenary session held by the Conference on Disarmament (CD) on the occasion of the International Youth Day (August 12).

In recent days, many checkpoints have been set up to protect COVID-free areas known as "green zones" to prevent the spread of the virus in the capital city of Hanoi.

The United Nations in Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee co-organised a ceremony to mark the International Youth Day 2021 in both in-person and virtual forms in Hanoi on August 12.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has recently issued the Vietnamese Youth Development Strategy for the 2021-2030 period under Decision No.1331/QD-TTg.