Zing News, a popular Vietnamese online magazine owned by one of Vietnam’s foremost digital organizations VNG Corporation, announced Thursday that it will be suspending publications for three months starting on July 14. This comes after an investigation by the inspector of the Ministry of Information and Communications. Zing News stated that it will focus on rectifying its shortcomings in aligning its platform with the provisions stipulated in Decision No. This is not the first time that the Vietnamese government has imposed harsh sentences on news platforms or their personnel. In 2021, Vietnam sentenced journalist and human rights defender Pham Doan Trang to nine years in prison.
