News Vietnam Social: Vietnam needs to create national social network to replace Facebook: Minister
Vietnam needs to have its own social network and search engine to replace foreign platforms Facebook and Google, said Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung at a meeting with information technology firms in HCMC on Monday.
News Vietnam Social: How should Vietnam regulate cryptocurrencies?
Experts believe that cryptocurrency is a growing international trend which Vietnam cannot resist. On June 18, Facebook stated it will launch Libra, a cryptocurrency, in the first half of 2020, ...
News Vietnam Social: Enforcing copyrights on social media in Vietnam
The EU’s new copyright law, which will require tech giants like Facebook and Google to pay copyright fees for creators when their works are shared on their platforms, setting a powerful precedent for countries trying to extend supervision over the operati
News Vietnam Social: Vietnam jails American for 12 years for attempting to overthrow state
Despite sweeping economic reform and increasing openness to social change, Vietnam's ruling Communist Party retains tight media censorship and does not tolerate criticism. The court also sentenced ...
News Vietnam Social: In Vietnam, U.S. Citizen Gets 12-Year Sentence for Trying to Overthrow State
Despite sweeping economic reform and increasing openness to social change, Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party enforces tight media censorship and does not tolerate criticism. The court in Ho Chi Minh ...
News Vietnam Social: Beauty queens charm in ‘Proud of Vietnam” photo project
Huong Giang, was the Vietnamese representative at Miss International Queen 2018 and went onto win the pageant during the grand finale of the transgender pageant in Pattaya, Thailand, on March 9. She ...
News Vietnam Social: Vietnam tops the world in growth of mobile payment users
Many younger consumers also go to online sources first for news and current affairs and 39% of them said they go directly to social media for information, compared with 25% overall. Viet Nam ranks ...
News Vietnam Social: Former crew, maintainers see C-130 gunship from Vietnam at Armament Museum
EGLIN AFB — Dan Cline was looking for an old friend Wednesday morning at the Air Force Armament Museum, inside the AC-130A Spectre gunship that has a prominent place on the museum grounds."I want to see if they still have the ASD-5 'Black Crow,' " Cline said while standing outside the museum with nearly 200 former Air Force airmen who, like himself, served with the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base from 1965-74 during the Vietnam War.For the past four years, the
News Vietnam Social: Grandma Ca: the 99-year-old standing up to Vietnam's coal rush
Toothless and nearly blind, grandmother Pham Thi Ca refuses to leave her plot of land even after bulldozers demolished her house -- an extraordinary holdout against communist Vietnam's deepening addiction to coal. The 99-year-old was offered money to move as authorities hoovered up land for a planned
News Vietnam Social: Duplications, misspellings, and miscounts found in new study of the Vietnam wall
One soldier whose name is on the Wall, Mateo Sabog, showed up years after the war to claim Social Security benefits and was told he was dead, Tetz said. Sabog had left the Army at the end of his ...
News Vietnam Social: People say they regularly see false and misleading content on social media – but also new ideas
Still, majorities of social media users in most countries surveyed see both at least occasionally, including about two-thirds or more in Tunisia, Lebanon and Vietnam. And very few social media users ...
News Vietnam Social: Vietnam intensifies crackdown on online dissent: Amnesty report
“In the past year, the Vietnamese authorities have made a clear effort to clamp down on social media,” Nguyen Truong Son, Amnesty’s Vietnam Campaigner, told Reuters. “They have realized that Facebook ...
News Vietnam Social: Amnesty Urges U.S. to Press Vietnam on Rights as Arrests Rise
(Bloomberg) -- Vietnam is increasingly jailing “prisoners of conscience” for comments made on social media platforms such as Facebook Inc., Amnesty International said, urging the U.S. to challenge the ...
News Vietnam Social: At least 128 prisoners of conscience in Vietnam: Amnesty
The number of those jailed in activist and social media crackdown rises by a third as new legislation takes effect. 14 May 2019 02:44 GMT Police officers outside the Thanh Xuan prison in the ...
