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Licences of news aggregators halted from Nov. 1

The granting of licences for internet-based news aggregators by enterprises and organisations has been temporarily suspended from November 1, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has announced.
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Hanoi (VNA)- The granting of licences for internet-based news aggregators by enterprisesand organisations has been temporarily suspended from November 1, the Ministryof Information and Communications (MIC) has announced.

The MIC said the moveaims to tighten management of information and news sources on the internet.

It will also review andhandle violating websites as well as news aggregators acting like onlinenewspapers.  

Provincial and municipaldepartments of information and communications are tasked to review and makea list of licensed news aggregators. Those using domains or namescontaining words such as "newspaper," "magazine,""news," "times," etc. which might be mistaken for onlinenewspapers will be asked to change.

These pages will have toshow links leading to original articles coming from news services under theirposts.

The MIC also demandsthem to have written agreements with press agencies to share articles and onlybe able to share them at least three hours after publishing time on theoriginal site. These agreements have to be submitted to the Authority ofBroadcasting and Electronic Information or provincial departments ofinformation and communications by November 15, 2019.

The departments shouldconsider not licensing news readers with domains belonging to other localitiesor citing news about other localities.

The ministry will alsotighten management over aggregators which operate as online newspapers, promoteclickbait, violating copyright and other regulations on intellectualproperty./. 
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