It is not in the English news sites yet but the internet line shared by VNPT, Viettel and FPT was damaged recently outside of Vung Tau somewhere in the ocean. I found out yesterday from my friend at VNPT when I complained about the terrible bandwidth from Vietnam to the US.
Nobody seems to know when the line was actually damaged but I think it happened last Saturday morning when we had the small earthquake.
The line is supposed to be repaired sometime next week but nobody knows when for sure. I heard that they were still trying to locate where the line was actually damaged.
Update:
Took nearly 5 days but finally the news is reporting about the cable breakage in English:
This is more-or-less same story we’ve heard from technical support staff FPT. A break in the cable to Singapore. I monitor times to Hong Kong also and I’ve seen those dramatically impacted … so I guess this might be the TATA cable from Singapore to Hong Kong that has a branch reaching to Vung Tau.
Regarding the location where the line was damaged … it is very easy for them to work that out, due to cleverness about how these cables work. I assure you that, if it is a cable break, they know exactly where to send the ship …