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Vietnamese PM orders crackdown on offensive websites

Cadres and civil servants of ministries, sectors and local authorities were urged not to spread information published on these websites. — VNS


No problems here, Comrade, I can vouch for your boys in this forum are fine cadres doing exactly what they are told and some performed the most exemplary and deserve a little pay raises. Thank You, sincerely.
 
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That´s fine. You can go and play with the Indians. I think they will be very happy. China should stay away from Vietnam and ASEAN. Don´t intrigue and interfere in our influence regions!


indians are not in the league as Vietnamese in terms of intellectual contents in general because you have been adopting our culture and we have many civil exchanges for quite some time.

You guys just overthrow your pm and find someone who is nice to China! Then we are in peace and advance our people together!
 
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indians are not in the league as Vietnamese in terms of intellectual contents in general because you have been adopting our culture and we have many civil exchanges for quite some time.

You guys just overthrow your pm and find someone who is nice to China! Then we are in peace and advance our people together!
In fact PM Dung is also criticized bcz he's so Soft to china.
 
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Speak only for your monkeyland. You don't represent ASEAN. We'll use our influence whenver and wherever we want. Hell maybe we'll get Cambodia to block all your proposals at ASEAN if we wanted to.

Know your place in the world. You are nothing more than a stepping stone between great powers. Always has been and always will be.


Your arrogance is annoying.

Yeh... don´t wed your pant and show your strength against the Japanese in the islands dispute!
But I am afraid the Japanese will teach you again a lesson and show the world that you are just a coward and loud-mouth.
 
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Your arrogance is annoying.

Yeh... don´t wed your pant and show your strength against the Japanese in the islands dispute!
But I am afraid the Japanese will teach you again a lesson and show the world that you are just a coward and loud-mouth.

Easy dude! If the japanese move to "teach you again a lesson" they have to ask for permission from their uncle! They do not have the guts to do it! Noda and his camp is doing all the antics only to avoid losing the coming election! Dont be stupid while many of your countrymen who are following our system of culture and thinking thrives in science and education!

If the japanese move one step further in escalating the tension, they are asking for self destruction!
 
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Who cares about Vietnam? It's just a third rate country without any relevance in the international stage. We should be talking about Japan, India or U.S instead. At least those three have some weight.

Thank you for your kind gesture!!! :P
 
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then you guys should rally to overthrow those who criticise PM Dung (haha his name is funny!)!


Why should we?
BTW the PM´s full name is Nguyễn Tấn Dũng. It does not have the meaning what you have in mind Dũng= heroism).
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Hmmm...I cannot find any news related to this order on his website:
Nguyen Tan Dung: Prime Minister of The Socialist Republic of Vietnam

One of his listed activities was beating the drum to start the new school year at Le Hong Phong Gifted School.
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Appearing that many have taken notice. Google lists about 1,160,000 results when searching "Vietnamese PM orders crackdown on offensive websites", even the Wallstreet Journal was worth for an article. Considering how China censors the web.
 
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Blog wars underline Vietnam power struggle


Since early this month the Western press has gotten wind of an extraordinary bit of intra-Communist party bashing underway Vietnam, but most have missed the crux of the story. One after another reporters have filed reports to the effect that Vietnam has launched a new round of repression of the media that populate the vibrant Vietnamese language blogosphere.

Case in point is Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's September 12 instruction to "responsible officials" to investigate and punish bloggers who are publishing anti-regime news. Posted on the government's website, Dung's circular singled out three political blogs: Dan Lam Bao ('The People Make the News'), Quan Lam Bao ('Officials Make the News'), and Bien Dong ('East Sea') for publishing stories considered "slanderous, fabricated, distorted and false, with the intention of blackening the leadership of the nation, rousing anti-party and anti-state sentiment, giving rise to suspicion and bad opinions within society."

His directive said the blogs were part of "a wicked plot by enemy forces." Dung instructed the Ministry of Public Security to coordinate with the Ministry of Information, and the latter to work with the Communist Party's Propaganda Section, to ensure the emission of "objective and truthful news about the situation of our country . . . and to crack down on mongers of news that isn't true."

Finally, officials and party cadre were instructed neither to read or disseminate information that is published on “reactionary” websites. A bit of digging by this reporter revealed that two of the blogs were set up a few months ago as vehicles for highly partisan attacks on Vietnam's top leaders by agents of their party rivals.

Quan Lam Bao (QLB) first appeared in early June, vowing in its first post to “wipe out corrupt cliques that monopolize the nation’s economic and political life.” By mid-July, QLB was reporting 10,000 “new visitors” daily. QLB was the first to break news of the banker and Dung crony Nguyen Duc Kien’s arrest on charges of "illegal business activities," 12 hours before the national police made their own announcement. In the next 10 days, daily hits on the site were just short of a million, an unheard of level in Vietnam’s blogosphere.

The Bien Dong blog surfaced on July 3 with a long, mundane account of Vietnam's historic claim to the East Sea and almost immediately segued into ad hominem attacks on President Truong Tan Sang, and detailed speculation that China was dictating the editorial stance of QLB. Unlike the anti-Dung site, however, Bien Dong went almost unnoticed by Vietnamese readers until it was sanctioned in the government's September 12 circular.

Perhaps to underline its neutrality in the intraparty dogfight, DLB on September 14 posted an analysis arguing that if Dung prevails, Vietnam will continue to wallow in corruption and nepotism, and if his rival should topple him, a Sang-controlled government will be Beijing's puppet.

Quoting sources in the Ministry of National Security who had counted "more than 400 reactionary organizations inside and outside the nation" that were posting distorted and defamatory stories on the internet, QDND concluded that weeding out such bad behavior is, literally, a Herculean task.

Sang, according to Vietnamese Communist Party watchers, tried to take down Dung in the build-up to the January 2011 party congress. He ultimately failed; though accused of mismanaging the economy and tolerating scandal, Dung secured another five year term as prime minister. As a consolation prize, Sang was named president, a largely ceremonial role. The third job in Vietnam's leadership troika, general secretary of the Communist Party, went to Nguyen Phu Trong, an ideology expert who'd done a credible job steering the national legislature.

That should have settled internal power struggles for another five years, but it hasn't. It is argued by at least a plurality of analysts that it was Sang who convinced Trong to launch a "party-building campaign" last February that has played a role in exposing recent scandals. Reputedly, Sang played on Trong's well-known concern that the corruption and venality of party members has steadily eroded popular respect for its leadership.

By past form, there's little chance that the Central Committee will vote either Dung or Sang out of office. Many of its 170 members would probably prefer that the two shake hands and get back to doing their jobs under the fa็ade of party unity. However, the bad blood between Dung and Sang is real, it is public and it overlies genuine differences in intra-party temperament and policy views. But with all the dirty laundry aired in the blogosphere, it may now be impossible to put the genie back into the bottle.

Asia Times Online :: Blog wars underline Vietnam power struggle
 
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Vietnam press freedom is deteriorating: watchdogs


HANOI -- Vietnam has intensified its repression of journalists and bloggers, using surveillance, imprisonment and the harassment of family members to muzzle critical reporting, media watchdogs said.

Press freedom is “deteriorating sharply” as the country's communist rulers struggle with a moribund economy, a banking crisis, and rising public anger over corruption, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday.

Reporters Without Borders has also condemned the “growing crackdown and the continuing convictions of journalists and, above all, bloggers.”

“We deplore the two-fold method of coercion consisting of reprisals against dissidents themselves together with surreptitious harassment and violent intimidation of their relatives and supporters,” the group said in a report on Tuesday.

According to the watchdog, Vietnam, where at least 19 bloggers are currently in jail, is “the world's biggest prison for bloggers and cyber-dissidents, after China and Iran.”

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/vietnam/2012/09/20/354866/Vietnam-press.htm
 
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One of the bloggers says, he rather goes into prison than lives a life of a dog that never dares to bark!
Things are getting worse a bit.

As usual the Vietnamese goverment is divided into two fractions: pro and anti-China. Difficult question how to balance the power between them.
 
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