Hanoi, Saigon residents face fake news weekly: survey

Vietnam needs its own networks to force Facebook, Google to comply with Vietnamese laws, a meeting heard Saturday.

Vietnam’s software industry is growing strongly with revenues of existing companies surging and Vingroup announcing its entry into the sector.

Truong Minh Tuan, Minister of Information and Communications, has been temporarily suspended by President Tran Dai Quang.

The Party has acted against incumbent and former information ministers for serious violations in the illegal acquisition of a TV firm by MobiFone.

Representatives of tech giants raised no objections and said they would modify their strategies according to the new law, claims senior official.

Huawei was able to access Facebook data to get the leading social network's applications to perform on smartphones.

The company has been caught with allegations that it may have hijacked up to 87 million Facebook users' data.

The Southeast Asian country is one of the first to introduce such a law, especially ahead of a potentially imminent general election.

Mother Mushroom was arrested in October 2016 and stood trial in June for publishing what authorities called anti-state reports on Facebook.

It is about the battle by newspapers to publish the leaked Pentagon Papers detailing the U.S.'s misleading portrayal of the Vietnam War.

He was found guilty of 'complicating public security' by posting anti-government material during the Formosa disaster.

Fake pages and anti-state content have got the government rattled.

The site has broken into the regional elite after just nine months, according to ASEAN UP.