September 25, 2011
A promotional spam message sent to a mobile phone. Individuals and organizations using telecommunication devices to send spam with sex and some other contents will be fined up to 50 million (US$2,400), according to a government resolution Tuesday.  Spammers caught sending spam about gambling, fortune telling, sex, violence and superstition will be fined between VND30-50 [...]
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September 3, 2011
The barge from which a woman fell into the river and drowned on August 20. Agencies in the southern province of Long An have concluded the death of a woman who drowned at a party attended by two top officials of the local prosecutors’ office was an accident, the Tuoi Tre reported Friday. The newspaper [...]
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August 22, 2011
Vietnam has seven mobile network operators with more than 120 million subscribers The Ministry of Information and Communications is finalizing a plan to allow mobile phone users to switch to a different network without having to change their numbers, news website VnExpress reported Saturday. The plan has been created based on trends in other countries [...]
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July 30, 2011
Tran Ha Duy (L) and her sister Tran Ha Tien have been arrested for their alleged involvement in an African-led drug trafficking ring African drug smuggling rings are using Vietnamese female students as traffickers instead of middle-aged women as they did earlier, a senior narcotics police officer has warned. Colonel Le Thanh Liem, deputy chief [...]
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June 12, 2011
Vietnam’s mobile phone subscriptions dropped by 45.3 million to 112.3 million in May, according to the General Statistics Office. The figure represents a record 28.8 percent decline since March, despite the fact that 4.4 million new accounts were created during the same period. Dinh Tien Hung, marketing manager at leading mobile phone network MobiFone, [...]
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June 1, 2011
Phone shops frequently recycle the personal information of one person to register multiple phone numbers Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications is drafting regulations that will ban the resale of registered sim cards, an official said. The new rule is an attempt to restore order on the telecom market and make sure all mobile phone numbers, especially [...]
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May 9, 2011
Fishermen sail near a MobiFone sign on a lake in Hanoi. Like Vinaphone, MobiFone is a lucrative mobile phone operator owned by VNPT. A new regulation aiming to make the local tele-communication market more competitive will require state group VNPT to divest from one of Vietnam’s leading mobile phone operators, Vinaphone or MobiFone. Easier said [...]
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May 1, 2011
Mobile phone network Beeline launched its service in Vietnam in July 2009 Russian telecom company VimpelCom has announced a plan to provide an additional US$500 million for its Vietnamese joint venture, GTEL-Mobile, through 2013. The company has completed the first stage of the financing plan by paying $196 million for newly issued shares, increasing its [...]
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April 29, 2011
Nguyen Thi Thanh Tuyen holds her husband's photo at Binh Duong General Hospital Tuesday. Tuyen has demanded an investigation into her husband death. The family of a man who allegedly killed himself while in custody in the southern province of Binh Duong asked local police to investigate his death on Thursday. Â According the records [...]
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April 28, 2011
The Ministry of Information and Communications Wednesday fined a company VND70 million (US$3,414) for illegally spamming mobile phones.  Hanoi-based EMOBI Joint-stock company has distributed messages, even though it is not an advertisement service supplier, according to ministry’s investigators who busted the company Tuesday.  The company was also found sending messages related to fortunetelling and [...]
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