HANOI: Vietnam has banned players of the game Pokémon Go from the offices of its government and ruling Communist Party, besides defence locations, as thousands of its citizens get swept up in the frenzy to capture virtual cartoon characters.
Hundreds of thousands of players have downloaded the game since its Aug 6 launch in Vietnam, with many annotating the Google version of the country's map to aid their quest, the Information and Communications Ministry said in a statement.
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