To celebrate the 82nd the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union anniversary, on March 23 and 24th, provincial Union of agencies held a Youth Festival and the event "Light up dreams of young officials". Many representatives and over 300 students attended this event; besides, Standing Committee awarded scholarships to 15 excellent students with difficulties and rewarded 5 union members having outstanding achievements in duties.On this occasion, provincial Union of agencies also held a camp "Light up the traditional fire" with activities such as competitions of traditional games, civil dance groups, 82nd Union foundation day meeting, awarded "For the next generation” campaign medals, "Earth Hour” responding activities, camping programs ...- Yesterday morning March 24th, Di An’s Union has held the Light up dreams of young students in 12th grade and praised "When I'm 18" students in school year 2012-2013 with the attendance of more than 700 of 12th grade students within the town.The Standing Committee of Di An Union has praised and rewarded 18 young people having excellent achievements in “When I'm 18" activities.- Phu Giao district Union has recently held contest "Youth contribute to native islands" in 2013 with 45 contestants are union members from Phuoc Vinh, Nguyen Hue, Tay Son High School and Phu Giao Continuing education center. The contest included two parts: 20 questions multiple choice test with topic of native island sovereign; presentations of 2 or 3 students each team with the theme of "What would you do to defend the island sovereignty of Vietnam".

The result was, the winner of: multiple choice test was Tay Son high school; presentation test was Phu Giao Continuing education center; the first, second and third of collective award were to Tay Son for High School, Nguyen Hue High School and Phuoc Vinh High School plus Phu Giao Continuing education center, respectively.- On March 23 and 24th, at the Phu Loi historic prison, Union of Binh Duong University held a traditional camp "Youth and cultural traffic" in 2013 with exciting activities such as competitions of exercising games, food stands, arts and fashion and some activities responding to the "Earth Hour" ... On this occasion, the organizers rewarded excellent 72 students.- Yesterday afternoon March 24th, the People's Committee of Hoa Phu Ward (Thu Dau Mot City) held a meeting to celebrate the 82nd Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union foundation (March 26th 1931 – March 26th 2013) and 78th traditional day of the militia (March 28th 1935 – March 28th 2013). At the meeting, many union members, youth and militia reviewed together glorious traditions of the HCM Communist Youth Union over 82 years of construction and development and 78 years of self-defense militias. Hoa Phu Union launched donation towards native island and awarded to 5 outstanding young people with difficulties.- Phu Hoa ward’s Steering Committee for Youth Month has recently held a meeting celebrating the 82nd HCM Communist Youth Union foundation. At the meeting, participants reviewed the tradition and exchanged discussions with Phu Hoa ward’s Union cadres of previous time-periods. 16 individuals with outstanding achievements in the Youth Month activities of the ward were also honored on this occasion.- Dat Cuoc ward’s Union (Tan Uyen district) held twinned program with Union branch of provincial Construction project Management with following contents: Proficient cadres contest in 2013 (image), football and performance contests. The program was to improve quality of Union activities and movements, educate political ideologies for unionists and collect, unite members of the two units as well as exchange experiences between unionists of rural areas and agencies. Dat Cuoc’s Youth Alliance co-organized professional training of Union - Association – Children Pioneer affairs in 2013 for 42 cadres with content including: How to organize effective union meetings, youth union models, communication skills, teamwork skills, etc. in order to provide unionists more knowledge and skills in duty completion and develop local union activities.Reported by N.Nhu - M.Hieu - H.Phuong - K.Tuyen – Translated by Ngoc Huynh