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The Vietnam Software Association (Vinasa) and the Game and Digital Content Business Club have complained to the Ministry of Information and Communications about the operations of Yahoo! in Vietnam.
Vinasa said that according to Decision 27, all organisations must have a licence of the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications to provide information on the Internetⁱ and have their own information websites. Websites of Yahoo! in Vietnamese which have .vn domain names are operating without licences.
According to Vinasa, Yahoo! is providing Yahoo! Mail in Vietnamese, Yahoo! Messenger in Vietnamese, Yahoo! Ask and Answer in Vietnamese, as well as Yahoo! Music in Vietnamese at Yahoo.com.vn though it doesn’t have an OSP licence.
The association also said that Yahoo!’s licence to set up a representative office in Vietnam doesn’t allow the representative office to conduct business activities or any lucrative activities in Vietnam.

Representatives of PAvietnam said over half of the domain names that were deactivated in the morning on July 29 are operational again. However, many clients still can’t contact PAvietnam.
Most of the recovered websites bear international domain names .com, .net, .infor, etc., not national domain names like .vn, .com.vn.
PAvietnam is trying to contact its parent company, Enom in the US, to take back three significant domain names that it lost, .net., .com, dotvndns.com. The homepage of PA was temporarily locked for checking. PAvietnam has asked the police, the HCM City Department of Information and Communications and the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team to deal with this case.
PAvietnam said around over 2,000 websites were affected by the incident, which started on July 27.

The 12th workshop on cooperation and development of IT and communications will be held on August 15-16 in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.
Entitled 'ICT serving agriculture and rural development', the workshop will discuss measures to develop and promote IT applications, particularly in agriculture and rural development in Can Tho and other Mekong Delta provinces.
In parallel with the workshop, a small exhibition on ICT and a meeting of the provincial IT Association will be organised.
The Vietnam Association of Information Processing (VAIP) will release the Vietnam ICT Index 2007 report, which reviews the application of IT by all provinces, cities, ministries and central agencies in Vietnam in 2007.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan and Minister of Information and Communication Le Doan Hop will attend the event.

The Vietnam Software Engineering Group (SEG Vietnam), a cooperative between Vietnamese and US universities, is preparing to launch its first IT course this October.
With majors in software engineering and information system, the curriculum will include four-year university courses and short-term classes for businessmen.
Established last June, SEG Vietnam is a group of five Vietnamese universities and institutes and the US’s Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) which aims to offer the most professional software technology training in Vietnam as well as in the Asian region.
Additionally, it hopes to meet the demand for IT human resources in Vietnam and export IT workers to other markets.
The General Secretary of the Vietnam Software Association, Pham Tan Cong, says Vietnam’s IT human resource training and exports are welcomed in many countries.

Local internet service providers (ISPs) say they are taking action to overcome a serious flaw inherent in the Domain Name System (DNS) that could allow an attacker to re-direct unwilling web users to dangerous sites.
The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) late last week alerted the local internet community to the appearance of the flaw in the system of host computers.
VNCERT said 95 percent of DNS servers in Vietnam were vulnerable to attacks. They could easily attack DNS Servers that have inappropriate configurations and change information on the system which would lead internet users to websites full of highly dangerous source codes.
“This is a very fundamental threat to the internet community in Vietnam, from internet users, ISPs, banks, to other internet-related activities,” said VNCERT’s director Vu Quoc Khanh.