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CTOnews.com, October 10 (Xinhua)-- Vietnam has completed a nearly five-month investigation into TikTok, which authorities found to have violated laws on e-commerce, information security and child protection, the Business Times reported.

The inspection team, including representatives of the six ministries, said that TikTok violated a number of regulations on content sharing and e-commerce services in Vietnam. Le Quang Tu Do, Director of the Radio, Television and Electronic Information Division, noted that TikTok's Singapore-based department manages the company's services in Vietnam, not the country's legal entity.

Vietnam's latest draft decree regulates the management of Internet services and online information, requiring foreign cross-border information providers to install at least one server in Vietnam to meet data storage and censorship requirements. The provider must temporarily lock down the content related to the user complaint within 48 hours; block and delete the infringing content and services within 24 hours after receiving the legal request.

The Ministry found that TikTok Singapore stored illegal information on local servers in Vietnam, such as fake news, incitement to violations and content harmful to children, and that users' copyrighted content and children's privacy were not properly protected.

Do said TikTok Singapore and its two offices in Vietnam had to resolve the violations within 30 days.

CTOnews.com learned from DataReportal data that TikTok has about 50 million users in Vietnam. In the second quarter of this year, TikTok Shop, TikTok's online shopping unit, overtook Lazada to become Vietnam's second-largest ecommerce platform after Singapore's Shopee with a 20 per cent market share.

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