On the afternoon of October 14, Mr. Dang Cong Da, Deputy Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Ngu Hanh Son District (Da Nang) reported that after inspecting and handling restaurants and hotels that violated the regulations on the words on advertising signs, the delegation discovered and recorded 35 violations.
Specifically, on the streets with many restaurants and hotels such as Nguyen Van Thoai, Tran Bach Dang, Vo Nguyen Giap, Ho Xuan Huong, and An Thuong tourist area, the inspection team discovered many restaurants, massage parlors, and eateries with signs written entirely in Chinese and Korean.
Some restaurants in Da Nang intentionally put Chinese characters above Vietnamese characters, bigger and more numerous than Vietnamese characters.
After drawing up the minutes, the inspection team invited all representatives of the violating establishments to the district People's Committee headquarters for handling, and at the same time propagated to the people to understand the regulations in the 2012 Advertising Law.
"The violations are required to be corrected before October 25. After October 25, if the restaurant and hotel owners do not correct them, we will strictly handle them according to the regulations," Mr. Da affirmed. According to Mr. Da, up to now, some owners have corrected and repaired the violating signs and the Department of Culture and Information continues to closely monitor.
