Laptops for learners. Vietnam’s Youth Month campaign.

This short article on the editorial page is form the Vietnaese online publication “Thanh Nien” on the 5th of March.

 

Thanh Nien newspaper and PetroSetco Distribution Co. have donated 100 laptop computers to needy school children in the central province of Quang Nam as their contribution to the National Youth Month campaign.

Valued at over VND10 million (US$572.22) each, the laptops were given to twelfth-graders with good marks as enticements to keep studying hard.  Youth Month, which calls on young people to work for the betterment of society, was launched by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union on Saturday. PetroSetco Distribution is a unit of PetroVietnam and engages in a variety of fields.

This publication is an official organ of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth League (Đoàn Thanh niên Cộng sản Hồ Chí Minh) whose main focus is on youth affairs. As Vietnam is a communist nation, content distributed would very likely be a method of encouraging socialist ideas and the media sector is controlled by the government. However, some newspapers remain relatively outspoken. Hopefully this publication is one of them.

This short editorial shows support for their publications assistance of school kids, as well as promoting the ‘PetroSetco Distribution’ who is part of the ‘PetroVietnam’ which is the trading name for The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group who provides petrol and gas for Vietnam.

This is an example of media implanting and encouraging the ideaologies of those who control it. Even though it would be obvious coming from a communist nation, it reflects the workings of other corporations such as the Rupert Mordoch’s empire.