4.
The provincial People’s Committee within their duites and power shall perform the state
management over the press at their localities.
Article 8. Vietnam Journalists Association
1. The Vietnam Journalists Association is a social - political – professional organization
which is established and operating under the regulations of law on association.
2. The Vietnam Journalists Association has the following duties and power:
a) Protects the legitimate rights and interests of its members;
b) Issues and implements the regulations on journalist’s occupational ethics.
c) Contributes opinions to develop the strategies, planning, plans and policies on
development of press and legal normative documents of press;
d) Participates in appraisal of journalistic products upon the requirement of competent
state agencies.
dd) Provides the occupational ethics and journalistic profession for its members;
e) Coordinates with the state management agency to propagandize and disseminate the
law on press;
g) Participates in monitoring the compliance with law on press; perform the international
cooperation in accordance with regulations of law;
h) Organizes the press contest to honor the authors and group of authors having the
journalistic products with high quality and positive social effect.
Article 9. Prohibited behaviours
1. Posting and release of information against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with the
contents:
a) Distort, defame and deny the people's government;
b) Fabricate and cause panic among people;
c) Cause the psychological warfar.
2. Post and and release information with the content which:
a) Causes division among classes of people, among the people with the people's
government, the people's armed forces, political organizations, political - social
organizations;
b) Causes hatred, discrimination, divisions, ethnic separatism, infringement of equal rights
of ethnic communities in Vietnam;
c) Causes the division between religious people and non-religious people, between the
followers of different religions, division of religious believers with the people's government,
political organizations, political – social organizations and insults the religious beliefs;