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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 08 > A test for Vietnam: free-speech bloggers

A test for Vietnam: free-speech bloggers

It’s been an anything-goes landscape, but the government is growing impatient

By Ben Stocking / The Bulletin
December 8, 2008

HANOI, Vietnam — Last fall, when police clashed with Catholic protesters over confiscated church land, the Vietnamese public didn’t need to rely on the sanitized accounts in the government-controlled media. They could read all about it on the blogs.

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