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Vietnam shifts stance on video games as key cultural industry
Vietnam designates video games as a key cultural industry in 2025, reversing a long-held stance that treated gaming as a social risk, and now actively promotes the sector at expos.
Bloomberg: Vietnam's government, which once saw video games as a social risk, named gaming as one of its key cultural industries in 2025 and now promotes them at expos — Communist officials who long viewed video games as a social risk now see them as key to a knowledge-driven economy.
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