The Ministry of Information and Communications will coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies to comprehensively inspect TikTok activities in Vietnam.
As the Covid-19 pandemic is still rather complicated in Vietnam at the moment, many people choose a safe method to spend their Tet Holiday – staying at home. However, thanks to advanced technologies, their activities are not any less diverse and enjoyable.
The popularity of social networks to the community has both negative and positive impacts, especially during the social distance period when people have to use the Internet to update information around them. Using stricter policies and regulations, the Government is trying to minimize these drawbacks to provide a healthier virtual environment for its citizens.
Foreign tech giants like Facebook, Google, and YouTube will have to pay taxes in Vietnam under a draft circular, after years of invoicing their revenues out of the country.
According to Center for Tourism Information under the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, the two video clips titled “Viet Nam – Dat nuoc, con nguoi” (Vietnam – The Country and People) and “Viet Nam – Diem den Van hoa va Am thuc” (Vietnam – Destination of Culture and Cuisine Destination) got over one million viewers on its Youtube channel after a short time of uploading.
Police investigators in the northern province of Bac Ninh yesterday said that 26 year old Ngo Ba Kha whose nickname is ‘Kha Banh’ (Handsome Kha) was arrested for the allegedly organizing gambling.
The Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information under the Ministry of Information and Communications has just required Google to remove clips with malicious contents and intensify filter and censorship to prevent such clips from appearing in Youtube.