Vietnam Blocks Copies of The Economist Over To Lam Cover

A printed edition of The Economist magazine with Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary To Lam on the front cover has been blocked from distribution in the country, in the latest sign of the government’s tightening control over the media.

Bloomberg News spoke to three newspaper and magazine distributors, with two saying they could not get hold of copies, and a third saying the May 24 issue has been officially blocked in Vietnam. They asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the ban, which was earlier reported by Reuters.