A Vietnamese youth uses her smartphone to access Internet in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, July 23, 2015. In mid-June, Facebook publicized astonishing results of a survey on Vietnamese users. Accordingly, Facebook has some 30 million monthly active users in Vietnam, or one third of the country's population. Up to three fourths of the users are in the age bracket of 18 to 34. The Facebook's survey shows that 20 million Vietnamese people use the social network on a daily basis, mostly to connect or chat with friends or visit pages run by companies and shops. (Xinhua/Nguyen Le Huyen)
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One evening, no different from any other, Quoc Dung's family gather in the dining room. Quoc Dung, 40, is an editor of a well- known online newspaper in Vietnam, and his wife Thu Nga, 35, works as an office clerk at an investment consulting company in Ho Chi Minh City.They have two children, a 13-year-old son named Quoc Phong and a 6-year-old daughter called Thu Van. Full story
