Vietnam's awakening youth circumvent censorship

2 February 2012, 12:07 am

MIKE IVES Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam When student Nguyen Hong Nhung saw "Killer with a Festering Head" on someone's smartphone, she wanted the banned comic book too. Though Vietnam's censors had yanked it from stores, finding a digital copy wasn't exactly hard. Nhung simply Googled the title, and with a few clicks was able to download a free bootleg copy of the book — a collection of one ...... Read More »

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