Vietnam bans Pokémon Go from government, defence sites


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 18 Aug 2016

People use tablets and smartphones to play the newly launched Pokemon Go game at a public park next to Hoan Kiem Lake in the centre of Hanoi on August 10, 2016. The game made its debut in the Southeast Asian nation on August 6. / AFP PHOTO / HOANG DINH NAM

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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