Hanoi - Communist Vietnam, which tightly controls access to the Internet within its borders, has formed a special police unit to investigate online crime and curb distribution of banned publications in cyberspace, state media reported.
The Southeast Asian country jailed three dissidents last month who had distributed criticism of Vietnam's political system on the Internet.
Hanoi has formed a police force to combat online fraud, "cheating or gambling via the Internet, and saving and distributing banned publications on the Internet", state-run Vietnam News reported on Wednesday.
The cyber-cops were expected to start operations next month, said Colonel Nguyen Hoa Binh, director of the Public Security Ministry's Economic Police Department.
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Vietnam has an estimated five million Internet users Vietnam has an estimated five million Internet users, out of a population of 81 million. Because of low incomes, many surfers go to Internet cafes, which are required to record user information and report any viewing of sites deemed inappropriate.
"Online crime is expected to become a major problem as more people begin using the Internet and connection speeds increase," Director of Hanoi Technology University's Network Security Centre Nguyen Tu Quang was quoted as saying in Vietnam News.
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