Facebook will set up a channel to exclusively receive requests from the Vietnamese government to handle accounts that violate the local laws on its platform, a representative of the world’s largest social network has said. Damian Yeo, head of legal and regulatory affairs for Facebook in the Asia Pacific region, led a delegation to a working meeting with Vietnam’s Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan in Hanoi on Thursday. At the reception, the Vietnamese minister hailed Facebook for its cooperation in resolving requests to block and remove content Vietnam deems inappropriate, as well as defamatory and fake accounts on its platform in recent times. Minister Tuan said that the cooperation between his ministry and the U.S. company has seen significant progress and the two parties can now make quicker contact through the Southeast Asian representative of Facebook. Facebook has so far removed more than 670 fake accounts and those whose posts the Vietnamese government identifies as being meant to defame Vietnamese leaders, disseminate anti-government propaganda, incite violence and spread pornography. However, the minister underlined that this number is too modest given Vietnam’s request to have a total of 5,000 such accounts purged from Facebook. As Google-owned YouTube has also deactivated some 4,500 “toxic” videos, whose content was either ‘fake news’ or anti-Vietnamese government, at the ministry’s request, these videos have been reposted on Facebook, Tuan noted. Tuan made no secret with his guests that the cooperation between Facebook and his ministry is not as strong as expected. “[The… [Read full story]
VietNamNet Bridge ' Members of the Hanoi People's Council have expressed their discontent about the decision by the Hanoi People's Committee on licensing to set up six car parks within the Thong Nhat Park campus. Commenting about the decision by the people's committee, they said that this is an '"unintelligible decision'" and that they could not imagine that Hanoi would have to set up parking lots in the campus of parks, considered as the green lungs of the city. '"The Hanoi People's Committee has released a decision to take back 800 hectares of unused land. Why doesn't it think of…... [read more]
NDO – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has stressed the need for utilising all channels and methods for gathering information to facilitate the work of recovering the remains of martyrs. The senior government official made the statement during a meeting with members of the National Steering Committee on the Project for Search and Retrieve of Martyrs’ Remain (Steering Committee No. 1237) in Hanoi on December 18. Reports at the meeting show that in 2017, the Ministry of Defence has handed over more than 500,000 records of martyrs to the Ministry of Information and Communications to integrate into the national…... [read more]
Copyright exchange, negotiation or trading is such a pressing issue in Vietnam these days that the government is looking into the many ways to resolve this problem. More than 70 foreign pay channels are broadcasting in Vietnam presently, many of which like HBO, Star Movies, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network and Discovery Channel have become familiar with Vietnamese viewers. Royalties for channels like HBO, Cine Max, Disney, Fashion TV and AXN are extremely high and went up by 1,043 percent in 2008, 162 percent in 2009 and 1,643 per cent in 2010. However in 2011, after repeated negotiations with relevant agencies…... [read more]
The Hanoitimes - General Director of the National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), Do Van Hau, on June 27 held a press briefing regarding the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation's (CNOOC) announcement to invite international bids for nine oil and gas lots within Vietnam's exclusive economic zone and continental shelf. Hau related that from June 23, 2012, the CNOOC's website, in both English and Chinese languages, invited international bids for exploration and production in 2012 at 09 oil and gas lots, with the total area of 160,239.38 sq km. A check on the coordinate of the lots released by China…... [read more]
The Deputy PM made the statement in Hanoi on August 13 while receiving Chinese Deputy FM Wu Dawei, who is heading a government delegation to Hanoi for negotiations on border and territory. Deputy PM Khiem appreciated the significance of the completion of land border demarcation and landmark planting of the two countries, urging that legal documents be finalised and all the necessary preparations be made in a timely manner. He stressed that the two countries’ border negotiations are in a new stage with a focus on sea-related issues. According to him, the two sides should thoroughly study and understand their…... [read more]
