Keyword: "online"

From March 2024 until March 19, 2025, the ministry blocked 9,515 URLs that sell or import e-cigarettes. Some 9,200 X accounts, 235 websites, 28 Facebook accounts, 12 Instagram accounts and 14 TikTok accounts were closed.

The suspects were reportedly part of a crime ring operating under foreign direction.

Indonesia’s Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid has called on Google to support the Indonesian government's efforts to protect children in the digital space.

The ASEAN Online Sale Day 2024, the largest shopping festival in the region, will official kick off on August 8, the Vietnam E-commerce and Digital Economy Agency (iDEA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) has announced.

Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang, Deputy Minister of Public Security and Chairman of the National Cybersecurity Association, emphasised the urgency of cybercrime prevention in today’s online internet community.

Online retail companies in Malaysia have started collecting low-value goods (LVG) taxes on imported goods below 500 RM (108.64 USD).

The Vietnam Cyber Safety for Children Club has been launched, with 11 founding members including businesses and organisations working in child support and protection in Vietnam.

Singaporean Minister of Law and Home Affairs K. Shanmugam on September 16 said that online radicalisation is a key factor in pushing the terror threat in the country today.

The central beach city of Da Nang has promoted non-cash payment, particularly in tourism areas and market system, making things more convenient for the locals and visitors.

The 2023 Cross-border E-commerce Expo Vietnam, the first of its kind, will take place in the southern largest economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City from August 10-12.

Vietnam’s digital economy may take the lead in Southeast Asia with average growth of 31% a year and reach 49 billion USD by 2025, said a report by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company.

Ho Chi Minh City has set a target to provide 100% of public services online through completing connection with the National Public Service Portal in 2023, according to the municipal Department of Information and Communications.

Thailand's central bank expects virtual banks to begin operating in the second quarter of 2025, announced the bank on January 12.

The National Service Portal has more than 3.2 million registered accounts since the time of launch (December 9, 2019) to mid-October 2022.

E-commerce is widely considered an effective and sustainable solution to help cooperatives improve their competitiveness, and boost production and exports, but the number of cooperatives that have gone online remains modest, prompting the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) to support them in this regard.

Vietnamese citizens applying for passports without electronic chips will be able to submit their forms online and receive by post.

Thirteen French famous films are set to be screened free of charge via DANET, an online movie platform, during an event called “CINE-TET 2022 avec MyFFF!” from January 14 to February 14.

A meeting on bullying at school and online in ASEAN was held on November 26 by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), the ASEAN Secretariat, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Gamescom, one of the world's three major game exhibitions along with E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) in the US and the Tokyo Game Show in Japan, ended on August 30. Held every late-August in Koelnmesse, Germany, Gamescom was held only online this year to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The ASEAN Finance and Central Bank Deputies’ Meeting (AFCDM) was held online in Hanoi on October 1 in preparation for the sixth ASEAN Finance Ministers’ and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting (AFMGM) scheduled for the following day.