Vietnam's youth skirt censorship

VIETNAM'S graying Communist Party is all about control: It censors all media, squashes protests and imprisons those who dare to speak out against its one-party system.

But today, as iPhone shops rub shoulders with Buddhist pagodas, cultural authorities are finding it increasingly difficult to promote their unified sense of Vietnamese culture and identity especially among the country's youth. "The more the government tries to ban something, the more young people try to find out why," says Nguyen Hong Nhung, a 20-year-old student. To access the banned comic book "Killer with a Festering Head," she simply Googled the title, and was able to download a free bootleg copy. AP