How we checked CRI Tiếng Việt

Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 3 things about this entry. We also found 3 things we could have published and decided not to.

What we publish, and where each part came from

What we say	Read from	When
Description This is the Vietnamese-language service of China Radio International, the overseas arm of state broadcaster China Media Group, produced in Beijing rather than anywhere in Vietnam. Output is news and current affairs aimed at Vietnamese speakers, covering Chinese politics and diplomacy, economy and technology, society and culture, with audio and video features alongside the written bulletins. There is no music format to speak of; the schedule is built from news programmes, commentary and spoken features.	China Radio International Vietnamese service	2026
Contact route four official Facebook pages the service links from the share box in its own page header, one of them the page of its listener-mailbag programme, plus a reporting hotline telephone number printed in the footer of every page; no email address, contact page or form found, and I checked the footer, the header share box, every section link in the navigation and the whole rendered homepage	CGTN	2026
Music News and talk, not a music station	China Radio International Vietnamese service	2026
Language Vietnamese	China Radio International Vietnamese service	2026
Kind talk	China Radio International Vietnamese service	2026
Where no place is stated for this service; the Vietnamese-language site is a news, audio and video site whose pages, footer and Nuxt payload carry no frequency, no about page and no frequencies page, and whose footer links only to sister language services	China Radio International Vietnamese service	2026

What we corrected

Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.

Field	Change	Why
country code	CN what it said before was not recorded; the reasoning usually states it	China Radio International's Vietnamese service is produced in Beijing by China Media Group, not in Vietnam; filed under VN
language code	vi what it said before was not recorded; the reasoning usually states it	Vietnamese-language service, no language code was stored
homepage url	https://vietnamese.cri.cn/ what it said before was not recorded; the reasoning usually states it	No homepage was stored; fetched this and it returns CRI's own Vietnamese-language news site (HTTP 200)

What we found and did not publish

Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.

What we could have said	Why we did not
the hotline telephone number	the sweep rule forbids copying an actual telephone number into this file source
the footer's own About us link is empty and leads nowhere	so the site offers no about page that might have carried contact details, and there is no contact page to give as CONTACT_URL source
a China Radio International or China Media Group shortwave schedule	the briefing is right that this language service names no frequency of its own, and borrowing the parent broadcaster's would be exactly the inference it warns against source

If you think something here is wrong

Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.

Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research current as at 2026.
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