Vietnam’s bloggers test govt’s limits

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Nirmal Ghosh
Asia News Network
10-07-2013

A fellow blogger calls the Anh Ba Sam blog the “pavement news agency”, in a satirical reference to the official state-owned Vietnam News Agency.

Anh Ba Sam, which means “The Gossiper”, was started in 2007 by former policeman Nguyen Huu Vinh, 57, and soon became a meeting point for people to discuss politics. It has been used to post videos and photographs of protests against land grabs, and also against China.

It is now one of the most popular blogs in Vietnam, drawing around 100,000 page hits daily. Some of the writers describe themselves as dissidents. Continue reading…