VietNamNet Bridge – NewOpenWorld on April 14 temporarily removed Ha Long Bay from its nomination list of new world natural wonders, said Ngo Hung, Head of the Ha Long Bay Management Board.
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On April 15, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Quang Ninh province Nguyen Hong Quan, who is also the Head of the Support Committee for Ha Long Bay, chaired an urgent meeting with related agencies to seek solutions for the case.
Quan said violating websites are supporters of Ha Long Bay in the world natural wonder poll. Because of shortage of knowledge, these websites unintentionally caused the removal of Ha Long Bay from the poll. In addition, the Support Committee for Ha Long didn’t control the contents on these websites. |
The reason, according to Hung, is some Vietnamese websites have pirated New7wonders’ logo, photos and contents of NewOpenWorld’s website.
On April 7, NewOpenWorld sent a letter to warn the Ha Long Bay Management Board of this situation and ask violating websites, including www.tuoitre.com.vn, www.thanhnien.com.vn and www.halongwonder.com, to remove illegal contents, but these websites did not.
On April 14, the Support Committee for Ha Long Bay received a second letter from NewOpenWorld, which said that the organisation would temporarily remove the Bay from the selection list until Vietnamese websites deleted pirated contents and followed NewOpenWorld’s requirements. In this letter, NewOpenWorld named one more violator, www.diendan1080.com.
Hung said the Support Committee for Ha Long Bay sent a dispatch to the NewOpenWorld organisation committing to quickly solve the violations and enforce technical solutions to prevent piracy. The committee also requested that the Ministry of Information and Communications help solve violations so that Ha Long Bay could resume its position on the selection list as soon as possible.
When Ha Long Bay was removed from the poll, it ranked first on the selection list. Previously, two other scenic spots of Vietnam, Phong Nha-Ke Bang and Fansipan, were rejected from the poll for not having official support committees.
(Source: TP, TTXVN) | 
