From vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn (via gamepolitics.com):

There is good news – well, news – for teenagers and even adults who are addicted to playing online games. A rehab centre has just opened in HCM City to bring them back from their insidious virtual world.

Such centres are popular in major “gaming” countries like South Korea, Japan and China, but this is the first of it kind here.

Though the first game only appeared in Viet Nam four years ago, there are six million people playing them, mostly aged 13 – 18.

Huynh Hong Hiep head of training at the Southern Youth Centre – a centre for sport and culture that has set up the rehabilitation facility – says many parents complain they are unable to drag their children away from the computer.

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