Bloggers in Vietnam

With fast, free Internet available at internet cafes and Universities across Vietnam, bloggers are increasingly challenging censorship and the ruling Communist Party, according to this article from San Francisco Chronicle. A student is quoted:

"We won`t go to the streets, we won`t shout anything. We`re sitting before the screen, typing and blogging."

The article goes on to say that a Vietnamese state-regulated news site has been hacked by bloggers, typing in pro-democracy and nationalist slogans. The story is penned by Geoffrey Cain, Chronicle Foreign Service. I wonder if he`s situated in Vietnam. As most media enterprises are cutting back on their foreign reporting, it`s encouraging to read well researched stories from Asia that aren`t written in news rooms in Europe or the US.