January 14, 2011
Vietnam will reportedly tighten state control of bloggers and other media with new regulations that enhance its already extensive powers to limit press freedoms.
The Committee to Protect Journalists claims the new rules, which come into effect next month, build on previous moves to bring online media under the same censorship regime imposed on the traditional media. Rights groups say Vietnam clamped down on dissent ahead of the five-yearly Communist Party Congress which began Wednesday to choose the country’s top leaders.
Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speakers: Dr Phong Nguyen, Viet Tan spokesman in Australia.