VNG Corporation

Vietnamese outlets Lao Dong and VietNamNet reported that VNG Corporation published multiple games carrying official 18+ content-approval ratings -- including Vo Lam Truyen Ky Mobile (5 million+ Google Play downloads), Lineage2M, Tan Thien Long, and Lien Minh Huyen Thoai: Toc Chien -- at lower displayed age ratings (9+/12+/13+) on Google Play and the App Store, making them more readily accessible to minors. Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Culture and Sports subsequently ordered all game publishers, including VNG, to correct app-store age-rating discrepancies within 15 days to match official approvals, implement reliable identity verification, and enforce daily playtime limits for minors, under penalty of distribution suspension or revoked publishing approval.

Vietnam's competition authority summoned VNG over Zalo's updated user terms, which required forced consent to broad data collection days before Vietnam's Personal Data Protection Law took effect in late December 2025. Vietnamese regulators separately fined VNG (alongside TikTok) roughly $64,700 total for user data transgressions on Zalo, and fined VNG over a game distributed with content that did not match its approved license. VNG said it cooperated with authorities and revised several policies.