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Mothers going crazy over food selfies crazy

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over the last two days, my cousin Nguyen Phuong Ly, 22, has been complaining about her mother Nguyen Ngoc Diep, a restaurant owner, for spending a lot of her cooking time posting pictures of fully-done food

Facebook revamps its takedown guidelines

 Facebook is providing the public with more information about what material is banned on the social network.

Minister of Health launches Facebook page

 VietNamNet Bridge - Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has become the first cabinet member to make public her personal fanpage on Facebook.

Facebook reports strong profits, adding millions of users

 Facebook reported fourth-quarter profits of $701m (£462m), a 34% increase on the same period a year ago.

Facebook restricts violent video clips and photos

 Facebook has begun placing warnings over videos posted to its site, stating their contents might "shock, offend and upset" if viewed.

Facebook’s new sticker feature unpopular with Vietnamese netizens

While Facebook engineers believe that the sticker feature in the Comments section allows people to express opinions in a fun way, many Vietnamese netizens, with some exceptions, have found the new feature annoying.

Photo of boy warned for theft shocks public

Recently a photo was posted on Facebook showing a boy crying and in a panic, with a bunch of fruit he is said to have stolen hung around his neck, raising public concern.

Facebook buys video ad technology firm

 Facebook has acquired LiveRail - a tech start-up that helps companies place more relevant ads in the videos that appear on their websites and apps.

The Facebook effect: Corrosive to students’ morality?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Facebook is spoiling the character and ethics of today’s young people, according to many Vietnamese educators. It has become a forum for students to speak ill of teachers and friends, or to escape their inhibitions.

Facebook emotion experiment sparks criticism

 Facebook is facing criticism after it emerged it had conducted a psychology experiment on nearly 700,000 users.

Facebook has 25 million users in Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 25 million of the 36 million Internet users in Vietnam have Facebook accounts, according to a Danish market research agency.

Facebook wants to 'listen' to your music and TV

 Facebook is to release a new feature on its mobile app that "listens" to your music and TV shows.

Facebook earnings surge on mobile advertising

 Social networking giant Facebook has reported profits of $642m (£383m) during the first quarter of 2014, beating analyst expectations.

Facebook launches friend-tracking feature

 Your phone always knows where you are. And now, if you want, your Facebook friends will always know where you are, too.

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 Rise in measles diagnoses not yet called epidemic; Student faces Facebook page probe; Unsealed container blamed for deadly kiln explosion; Plastic surgery death to be re-investigated; 14 year old girl infected with bizarre skin disease

Facebook to buy messaging app WhatsApp for $19bn

Facebook has bought messaging app WhatsApp in a deal worth a total of $19bn (£11.4bn) in cash and shares. 

New decree gives a tool to fine Facebook?

Though a new decree stipulating the punishments on the violations of the e-commerce law has been released, lawyers and analysts still argue about if Facebook would be fined if it does not register its operation to the watchdog agency.

FB has no word on rule

 VietNamNet Bridge – Facebook has yet to comment since the Government released Decree 185 stipulating fines against e-commerce violations.

Facebook has an authorized reseller in Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge - As of September 2013, Facebook had 1.15 billion users worldwide, including more than 700 million regular users.

What do Vietnamese students do with Facebook?

Educators have rung the alarm bell over the students’ degrading sense of morality after a lot of abuses and invectives on parents, teachers and friends were found on their Facebook.