Vietnam embassy Japan web link opens sex site
VietNamNet – The BBC has reported that the website of the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan links to an online sex site. Tuoi Tre Newspaper followed the case.
On the Japanese version of the Vietnamese Embassy website in Japan, the link to the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) points to a porn site called “Vietnamfdi”. The link, in the Japan – Vietnam Business Matching column of the English version, points to another page in the site, which contains the MPI sex link.
The Association of Vietnamese Students in Japan has discussed the problem and has sent emails to embassy staff to no avail. The students noted also that the information on the legitimate pages is out of date, the most important news being the introduction to the Vietnamese Festival in Yokohama, Japan, which took place in June 2004.
According to the Tuoi Tre report, the Vietnamfdi website was produced in Vietnam by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment. A representative of JICA told Tuoi Tre that prior to 2003, a JICA employee helped the ministry to develop the site but has since returned to Japan.
Tuoi Tre said that reporters called MPI’s IT centre June 8 but was told that one staff member was in hospital and two others were away on business.
Reporters also contacted the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan and was told that the website was developed “five or six years ago”, but that the embassy had stopped using it two years ago, adding that they asked developers to destroy it.
“Half a year ago we asked Vietnamese experts to delete this website but they couldn’t do it yet. Since early 2006 we have focused on building a new website in the portal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” an embassy representative said.
Officials said that the Vietnamfdi domain name is no longer used by MPI and that someone has bought it for use as a pornography site, or that it has been attacked by hackers.
Tuoi Tre - June 9, 2006.
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