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Developing the specification data information system of electronic publications in order to create
b)
favorable conditions for searching, accessing, managing and archiving electronic publications.
The Government shall detail this Article in accordance with each stage of development of
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publishing activities.
Article 8. Establishment of representative office in Vietnam of foreign publishers and
publication release organizations
Foreign publishers and publication release organizations (including enterprise and organization
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established abroad with multidisciplinary and multi-sector operation including publishing and
publication release) are allowed to establish representative office in Vietnam after the Ministry of
Information and communication issue license.
The Government shall specify the conditions for the establishment and operation contents and
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procedures for the issuance, renewal, re-issuance and extension of establishment license of
representative office in Vietnam of foreign publishers and publication release organizations
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9. Complaints and denunciations in publishing activities
The complaints and denunciations in publishing activities shall comply with the provisions of law on
complaints and denunciations.
Article 10. Contents and behaviors prohibited in publishing activities
1. Seriously prohibiting the publishing, printing and release of publications with the following contents:
Conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic o
a)
f Vietnam and destroying the unity of the
whole nation;
Conducting propaganda and incitement war of aggression, causing hatred between nations and
b)
peoples; conducting incitement of violence; spreading reactionary ideology, obscence and depraved
lifestyle, criminal acts, social evils, superstition and destruction of habits and customs;
c) Disclosing the state secrets, personal secrets and other secrets prescribed by law;
Distorting historical truth, denying revolutionary achievements; offending nation, well-known
e)
persons, national heroes; failing to express or properly express sovereignty; slandering and insulting
the reputation of the agency, organization and dignity of the individual.
2. It is strictly forbidden to perform the following acts:
a) Publishing without registration and publishing decision or publishing license;
b) Changing, distorting the content of the manuscripts which have been signed for approval by or
non-business document manuscript with the seal of the publishing licensing agencies;
c) Illicit and false printing, illegal re-printing of publications
d) Releasing publications without legitimate origin or failing to submit copyright deposit
e) Publishing, printing and releasing publications which have been suspended from release,
recovering, confiscating, banning from circulation, destroying or illegally importing publications;
f) Other prohibited acts as prescribed by law.
Article 11. Handling violation in publishing activities
Organizations having violations of the provisions of this Law and other provisions of the relevant
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law, depending on the nature and seriousness of their violations, shall be administratively sanctioned,
if causing damage, they must pay compensation as prescribed by law.