Thailand will join hands with Vietnam to combat fake news, Thai Minister Attached to the Prime Minister's Office Puangpet Chunlaiad has said.

Vietnam will turn off 2G technology from September 2024, said the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC).

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Lam said that smart TVs in Vietnam will have to have official television journalism applications pre-installed on the platform from 2024 onwards.

ASEAN ministers strongly affirmed the role of information and communications in the new era as information transforms into knowledge and a life-time education while digital awareness improves among ASEAN citizens.

Blocking violators on cyberspace aims to deter them, so they will not break the law again or try to stop avoid punishment by eliminating traces of their activity.

Identifying livestreamers will help restrict dirty content and sale of fake goods, and will also force livestreamers to comply with the law.

Bkav yesterday released a warning about a dangerous virus taking advantage of the standard svchost.exe process on a computer to deeply penetrate the system and regenerate itself. In August only, nearly 96,000 computers were infected with it.

The serious measures applied by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) have begun showing an effect. The trade of ‘junk’ simcards and ready-activated simcards has reduced considerably.

Requiring cross-border platforms to set up office in Vietnam will create fairness in management, protect users, and ensure tax obligations. Their offices will also be able to work with state management agencies to handle violations.

T, the owner of a business recently posted a comment on his Facebook page, complaining that computers at his enterprises "were infected with a botnet" which had caused severe damage to his business.

Vietnam is planning to start completely switching off the 2G network from December 2023 to make room for more modern telecommunication technologies to develop.

A comprehensive miniature Vietnam is available through https://vietnam.vn as a rich treasure about the country and people of Vietnam, hoping to satisfy readers who love Vietnam and want to learn about Vietnam.

The global cybersecurity company Kaspersky and AIS under the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) jointly held a workshop for technical exchange and thought leadership.

CyRadar Information Security Co. informed that many Vietnamese Internet users were tricked to visit a fake Telegram site and have their account data stolen.

Social networks will be required to remove content found in violation immediately. Such accounts, community pages and content channels will be locked. The heavy sanctions are expected to help clean up cyberspace.

Telecom carriers are trying to cool down the fierce competition in the fixed broadband internet market.

Vietnamese businesses invested abroad in 14 areas in January-August 2023. The information and communications (ICT) industry ranked second with more than $114.32 million.

Digital cooperation is one of the priorities mentioned in the action plan to implement the joint declaration of Party Secretary General Nguyen Phu Trong and US President Joe Biden.

Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications will announce its inspection conclusion of TikTok next month.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) is going to auction frequencies for 5G in November, and the first licenses to deploy 5G are expected to be granted by the year end.