Vietnam begins compilation of country’s first open encyclopedia
The encyclopedia can be accessed at bktt.vn
Digital music thrives in Vietnam, but at a price
In today’s Internet age, digital music has gained a preponderance in the music market in Vietnam – just as in other countries – but it remains plagued by poor quality and rampant copyright infringements
78% of Vietnam children under 6 use digital device: survey
A recent social survey by an ethnology and anthropology research association in Ho Chi Minh City reveals an alarming fact: up to 78% of kids under six years old use digital device.
The men behind Vietnam’s major tech website
Two enterprising young men founded a non-profit digital technology website, one of Vietnam’s largest of its kind, to gather local buffs, and run a company which produces well-loved leather accessories for high-end smart tools
Digitalization project may hurt 1 million TV viewers
Around one million TV viewers in HCMC and several southern provinces will be denied access to HTV7 and HTV9, two of the country’s most established and watched channels if HCM Television stops its analog broadcasts altogether by Dec 2015.
Five major cities to go fully digital by June 2014
The Ministry of Information and Communication’s television digitalization board recently announced that five major cities, including Hanoi and HCMC, will switch to digital terrestrial television entirely by June 2014 at the latest.
70% of local households expected to use paid TV by 2020
The plan to develop local radio and television services by 2020 expects that 60-70% of households nationwide will use paid television services by that time.
Go digital all the way? Hurdles remain
All local households will have to switch to digital TV by 2020, which is a costly, sophisticated process.