The Vietnam-Spain Guitar Club has been established recently in Hanoi by the Vietnam-Spain Friendship Association, the Centre for the Support of Talent, the Hanoi Conservatory and the Khuyen hoc & Dan tri (Learning Promotion and People's Intellectual standards) newspaper.

The club will be twinned with a number of guitar clubs in Spain to organise guitar performance exchanges and training courses.

The club is expected to detect and foster young guitar talents for recommendation to international guitar contests and develop a guitar playing movement among students.

Pham Huy Hoan, president of the Sponsorship Council of the club, said that many young players have taken part in discussions on the art of guitar playing and become members of the club through its website.

Pham Hong Phuong, chairman of the club, said that the club has begun to hold regular activities at a number universities, colleges and secondary schools.

The club plans to open in November in a programme honouring Vietnamese guitar talents.