Popular news website Zing News is back online but has been rebranded Z News. The publication was forced to suspend operations for three months after it ran afoul of Vietnam’s censors. Specific details as to what it did wrong were not made public, however, there was some speculation that it was related to coverage of the war in Ukraine.

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