Experts have warned that a firm legal framework and strict punishment measures are needed to manage virtual financial investment platforms, which they say are now out of control.

VOV.VN - A Facebooker of Phu Yen province, central Vietnam, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on a charge of making, stockpiling, distributing and disseminating documents against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The People’s Court of Binh Thuy district in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on April 22 sentenced a woman to two years in prison for “abusing the rights to freedom and democracy to violate the interests of the State, the rights and legitimate interests of organisations and individuals.”

Three defendants in the central province of Khanh Hoa got sentences on charges of “making, storing, distributing, or disseminating information, documents, and items against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Clause 1, Article 117 of the 2015 Penal Code.

Taking place on March 7, an online charity auction in Malaysia, a meeting and musical festival in Macau (China), and a contest in Laos were among the activities held by Vietnamese overseas in celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8.

VOV.VN - A rap song titled “COVID slayers”, composed and performed by the medical staff of Ho Chi Minh City’s Hospital of Dermatology, is taking the internet by storm.

Foreign tech giants like Facebook, Google, and YouTube will have to pay taxes in Vietnam under a draft circular, after years of invoicing their revenues out of the country.

Copyright fees collected overseas for the use of Vietnamese music increased from nearly VND2 billion (US$87,000) in 2019 to more than VND3.6 billion last year.

Many viral trends on social networks occurred in 2020.

Online scams have become more and more common in recent years, causing a great deal of anxiety in society.