Vietnam's Information Ministry has fined the ruling Communist Party's news website for posting an article that drew fire for appearing to support China's position on disputed islands in the South China Sea.
An official in the Information Centre of the Ministry of Information and Communications said the Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper (www.dangcongsan.vn) had been fined 30 million dong (56,400 baht).
The offending article, posted on Sept 4, was a translation of a news report from China about Chinese naval exercises around the Spratly and Paracel Islands,the source of long-running, multilateral disputes over sovereignty. It sparked an outcry online in Vietnam, with readers complaining that the Communist Party's website appeared to accept the exercises as normal and had failed to defend Vietnam's claims to sovereignty over the Spratlys and Paracels.
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