At 3:02 am on October 18, 2009, I found that from Vietnam, I got a "page not found" error when I try to go to certain sites. Friends in the US, over Skype, tell me that they can see the same sites. So far the list of blocked sites includes the following:
www.voanews.com Voice of America News
anonymizer.com A proxy service
When I checked again, some time later (on January 5, 2010), I found that I could access Voice of America news. I wondered if the block had been random, or related to specific content at that time. A search for Vietnam on the website came up with one possible cause: an article about an environmental group presenting a petition to the Vietnamese and other regional governments in opposition to plans to dam parts of the lower Mekong River delta. The article was dated October 19, 2009, but time zone differences could result in the two events being contemporaneous.
"The environmental group, Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliance, collected more than 20,000 signatures asking governments to abandon plans to build dams along the lower Mekong River."
"An alliance representative, Premrudee Daoroung, says the 11 dams on the lower Mekong threaten fishery stocks.
"Our
main concern is that if the Lower Mekong mainstream dams happen the
fishery for the whole Mekong region will be blocked and fishery is a
very thing - it is out of concern that if that [occurs] it will destroy
the livelihood of millions of people in the region," said Premrudee."
REF: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2009-10-19-voa14.html
[this is good] I'm also experiencing intermitent problems with Facebook.
Posted by: Nancy | 11/17/2009 at 06:32 PM
I've also noticed disruptions in Facebook access in Vietnam. But these were easy to fix by simply changing the DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4 (Google's free DNS service).
Posted by: Lawrence W. Sinclair | 01/04/2010 at 11:24 AM