Bloggers Phuong Ngo and Truong Huu Chau Danh and an unknown woman got stuck in a car surrounded by police and thugs since 12 PM on 14 January 2019. Police and thugs reportedly surrounded their car, not allowing it to move for hours. In order to protect themselves, the trio stay in the car and call for help from other activists.The same day, activist Huynh Long disappeared. According to civil society, this is likely due to their activities which aimed to block and force the An Suong Highway Toll to stop taking money from drivers since it was wrongly placed in the National Road No. 1 in Binh Hung Hoa B ward. There are 96 of tolls for BOT (Build-Operation-Transfer) for roads in Vietnam, according to the state media and dozens of them were placed wrongly. These tolls belong to interest groups backed by senior officials. In order to protest these wrongly-placed tolls, hundreds of drivers and activists in the country have been gathered to these facilities to block them. In order to deal with protesters, authorities in these locations where the wrongly-placed tolls station send police including riot policemen to disperse the peaceful demonstrators. Meanwhile, tolls’ owners often hire thugs to threaten and beat drivers. According to Forum Asia, Vietnam has been spending huge financial resources for building roads to serve its fast economic development, however, the quality of the newly-built roads is poor and they have been degrading in short time after being put into operation and corruption is the main cause for the problem. Many roads and road parts have been built by private companies (under BOT form) and they are allowed to make tolls to collect fees from drivers.