QUOTE
Vitnamese authorities cut threads to world web
Authorities in southern Vietnam have shut down 65 Internet cafes and kiosks after finding hundreds of addresses of pornographic and anti-government Web sites on their computers.
The communist government recently intensified efforts to control use of the Internet by requiring customers of Internet cafes to register their identities and making cafe owners monitor the sites customers visit.
Last month, authorities set up a special police unit to investigate online crime and curb the distribution of banned material in cyberspace.
The Phap Luat newspaper says 65 Internet outlets were shut down over the past two weeks in Ho Chi Minh City.
The newspaper quotes the deputy head of the city's science and technology department, Hoang Le Minh, as saying inspectors are continuing to scour computers in Internet outlets to see what sites customers had been visiting.
18/09/2004 09:13:35 | ABC Radio Australia News
Authorities in southern Vietnam have shut down 65 Internet cafes and kiosks after finding hundreds of addresses of pornographic and anti-government Web sites on their computers.
The communist government recently intensified efforts to control use of the Internet by requiring customers of Internet cafes to register their identities and making cafe owners monitor the sites customers visit.
Last month, authorities set up a special police unit to investigate online crime and curb the distribution of banned material in cyberspace.
The Phap Luat newspaper says 65 Internet outlets were shut down over the past two weeks in Ho Chi Minh City.
The newspaper quotes the deputy head of the city's science and technology department, Hoang Le Minh, as saying inspectors are continuing to scour computers in Internet outlets to see what sites customers had been visiting.
18/09/2004 09:13:35 | ABC Radio Australia News
Give them all red bruises for being SO MEAN and OLD and RESTRICTIVE and UNREASONABLE and UNHELPFUL to the Vietnamese!!! 
