Political, Social, Environmental, and Popular News on Vietnam
Saturday, May 22, 2010
May 22, 2010Thursday, July 22, 2010
July 22, 2010 HANOI, Vietnam — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chided Vietnam on Thursday for intolerance of dissent and infringement of Internet freedom, even as she celebrated its 15 years of normalized relations with the United States. Mrs. Clinton said she raised the issues of jailed democracy activists, attacks on religious groups and [...]
Saturday, May 22, 2010
May 20, 2010 When the pilot version of the go.vn site (www.goonline) was launched this week, it caused a bit of an international dust-up with one major social network and the netizens of Vietnam. Seems like Facebook can’t cut a break any where in the world these days! According to an AFP wire, some believe [...]
Thursday, May 20, 2010
May 20, 2010 HANOI — Vietnam’s communist government has launched its own social networking site, after allegations that it restricted Facebook and hacked numerous websites with political content. A pilot version of the go.vn site (www.goonline.vn) was launched Wednesday and is the country’s biggest-ever IT project, a notice on the website said. “Several people said [...]
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
2010-04-20 Authorities don’t like it—which may make youths even keener to join. HANOI—Young Vietnamese netizens are managing to find ways to keep using the social networking site Facebook, despite a government bid to block it. Facebook is still a favorite Web site among young people, especially Vietnamese teens, who quickly found circumvention software to get [...]
Monday, April 5, 2010
04/05/2010 HANOI—Vietnam has rejected accusations by Internet giant Google that Vietnamese computer users have been spied on and political blogs hacked into. The US-based firm last week said infected machines had been used both to spy on their owners as well as to attack blogs containing messages of political dissent. “These are groundless opinions,” Nguyen [...]
Thursday, December 3, 2009
3 tháng 12, 2009 Các nhà tài trợ nước ngoài nói việc hạn chế tự do thông tin và ngăn chặn internet sẽ ảnh hưởng xấu tới phát triển ở Việt Nam. Hội nghị Tư vấn các Nhà tài trợ (CG) họp một năm hai lần đang diễn ra trong hai ngày 03/12-04/12 tại Hà [...]
Thursday, December 3, 2009
2 tháng 12, 2009 Thủ tướng Việt Nam Nguyễn Tấn Dũng vừa chỉ đạo ngành văn hóa thông tin rà soát tất cả các website và xử lý nghiêm khắc các vi phạm. Trang tin điện tử của Chính phủ Việt Nam cho hay ông Dũng vừa ký công văn 8500/VPCP-TH giao cho Bộ Thông [...]
Thursday, November 19, 2009
November 17, 2009 HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country’s communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks. Facebook has more than 1 million users in Vietnam, and the number has been growing quickly [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
18 tháng 11, 2009 Người sử dụng internet ở Việt Nam đang lo ngại trước thông tin chính quyền có thể ngăn chặn mạng xã hội Facebook. Việc truy cập trang mạng ngày càng thông dụng này thời gian gần đây gặp nhiều vấn đề. Một số người than phiền họ không thể vào được [...]
