Hanoi Web Crackdown Hits Blogs; Foreign Firms Fret

Vietnam's leaders are stepping up their campaign against critical blogs, ordering government investigators to arrest the operators of three websites at a time when global Internet companies are growing more worried about doing business in the tightly policed country. A government statement named three blogs that allegedly posted articles accusing the government of corruption and human-rights abuses, describing the blogs as being part of a "wicked plot of the hostile forces"—a term often used to describe advocates of democratic reforms. Two of the three sites vowed to continue.