Published:  00:00 Thursday - March 25, 2010

Top local and foreign singers will share the stage during a series of concerts to raise awareness of human trafficking which will kick off on March 27 in Hanoi.

The singers, including the Republic of Korea’s megastar boy band Super Junior, Australian pop star Kate Miller-Heidke, and local stars Anh Khoa, Ha Anh Tuan, and Phuong Vy, will perform at a massive free concert entitled MTV Exit Live at Hanoi’s My Dinh National Stadium.

The concert, which is part of the MTV End Exploitation and Trafficking (EXIT) campaign, aims to raise public awareness of prevention of human trafficking and exploitation.

The American band The Click Five, recipients of the Knockout Award at the MTV Asia Awards, will headline the final show, which will be held in Military Zone 7 Stadium in HCM City on April 17. Being avid supporters of MTV EXIT’s initiative to end human trafficking, the band is thrilled to return to Southeast Asia once again to lend their voices to this urgent cause.

After Hanoi, the show will tour Ha Long Bay for another performance on April 3, then head to Can Tho on April 10. In HCM City, the MTV Exit show is expected to attract more than 25,000 people.

Footage from the concerts will be used to produce a series of television programmes aired nationally on YanTV, the campaign’s official music channel. “We are thrilled to announce the MTV EXIT Live in Vietnam concert tour,” said MTV EXIT’s director, Simon Golf. “By holding this concert tour across the country, we are harnessing this power, using it to inform and mobilize young people in the fight against human trafficking.”

MTV EXIT is produced by the MTV Europe Foundation in partnership with the US and Australian Agencies for International Development. Fifteen concerts have been held to raise awareness of human trafficking across Asia over the past two years, including events in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal, Taiwan and the Philippines.

For ticketing information please visit www.mtvexit.org or www.hoahoctro.vn.

VNA