Online gambling is increasing, with many websites allowing players to place bets. Such gambling has led to real life tragedies.

Football betting has existed in social life in Vietnam for decades. Gamblers bet on football matches at both domestic and international tournaments.

The Vietnamese police have broken up an online gambling ring in Hanoi with transactions worth more than EUR1.1 billion.

Many Internet users in Vietnam, especially young people, students and children are negatively affected by unhealthy information and images that are freely distributed in cyberspace.

The Hanoi police have arrested Truong Ngoc Tu and 15 other suspects for their alleged involvement in an online gambling ring, with total transactions worth up to VND64 trillion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Google has announced the removal of 56 gambling applications from its Google Play store because the games were not compliant with Vietnam’s established laws, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police of northern Phu Tho Province have launched legal proceedings against more than 70 defendants for their alleged involvement in a major gambling and money laundering case.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in the central Thua Thien-Hue Province busted a large-scale gambling racket early Monday morning after months of monitoring.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The People's Court in HCM City yesterday morning (August 24) opened the first hearing on the case of illegal online gambling on the website 188bet.com.

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On January 16, the Police Investigation Department of Social Security Crime said that the agency, in collaboration with the Police Department Against High-tech Crime, discovered an online gambling ring worth hundreds of millions of USD.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Public Security has discovered the biggest-ever online gambling den in Vietnam and arrested eight people, including five in Ho Chi Minh City and three in Hanoi.