HANOI: Companies such as Facebook that operate in Vietnam should abide by local laws and fully implement their tax and social responsibilities in the country, Vietnam’s foreign ministry said on April 23.
On Tuesday, Reuters exclusively reported that Facebook's local servers in Vietnam were taken offline in mid-February, slowing local traffic to a crawl until Facebook agreed to a government request to significantly increase the censorship of "anti-state" posts for local users in Vietnam.
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