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1 of the first 3 pure Vietnamese HD channels of VTC, broadcasting Vietnamese and foreign TV series and movies. The channel stopped broadcasting in 2016, then relayed GEM TV Asia until 2018. VTC HD3 Fashion, music and culture 1 of the first 3 pure Vietnamese HD channels of VTC. The channel stopped broadcasting in 2016 VTC HD Sports Sports
The popular social networking website Facebook has about 8.5 million users in Vietnam and its user base has been growing quickly after the website added a Vietnamese-language interface. [15] During the week of November 16, 2009, Vietnamese Facebook users reported being unable to access the website. [16]
The Vietnamese people (Vietnamese: người Việt , lit. ' Việt people ' or ' Việt humans ') or the Kinh people (Vietnamese: người Kinh , lit. 'Metropolitan people'), also recognized as the Viet people [67] or the Viets, are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day Northern Vietnam and Southern China who speak Vietnamese, the most widely spoken Austroasiatic language.
The current general secretary is Tô Lâm, ranking first in the Politburo. [ 4] The position was once designated the first secretary ( Vietnamese: Bí thư Thứ nhất) from 1951 to 1976. Trần Phú, one of the founding members of the Indochinese Communist Party, was the party's first general secretary. A year after being elected, he was ...
June 7, 2024 at 11:49 PM. HANOI (Reuters) - Police in Vietnam have arrested two well-known Vietnamese Facebook users on charges of abusing democratic freedoms, the government said on Saturday, as ...
The BBC World Service began on 19 December 1932 as the BBC Empire Service, broadcasting on shortwave [14] and aimed principally at English speakers across the British Empire. In his first Christmas Message (1932), King George V characterised the service as intended for "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, that only ...
Research by the OpenNet Initiative, a project that monitors Internet filtering by governments worldwide, showed that the Vietnamese-language portion of the Radio Free Asia website was blocked by both of the tested ISPs in Vietnam, while the English-language portion was blocked by one of the two ISPs. [47]
The Vietnamese government recognizes 54 ethnic groups, of which the Viet (Kinh) is the largest; according to official Vietnamese figures (2019 census), ethnic Vietnamese account for 85.3% of the nation's population and the non-Vietnamese ethnic groups account for the remaining portion. The ethnic Vietnamese inhabit a little less than half of ...