How we checked RFI 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 5 things about this entry. We also found 5 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
RFI Tiếng Việt is the Vietnamese-language service of Radio France Internationale, which its own pages name as "Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp", France's international radio. It publishes a daily hour-long news programme, "CHƯƠNG TRÌNH 60 PHÚT", together with news bulletins, a press review and a set of weekly magazines. Its own site sections are CHƯƠNG TRÌNH 60', TẠP CHÍ, PHÁT TRỰC TIẾP, VIDEO, TIN TỨC, VIỆT NAM, CHÂU Á, PHÁP, QUỐC TẾ, PHÂN TÍCH, ĐIỂM BÁO, CỘNG ĐỒNG, KINH TẾ, XÃ HỘI, KHOA HỌC, VĂN HÓA, THỂ THAO and HỌC TIẾNG PHÁP.
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RFI Tiếng Việt, the service's own home page on rfi.fr, whose title reads "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI" | 2026 |
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Artists
not a music station. Its music magazine, "TẠP CHÍ ÂM NHẠC", covers artists editorially rather than as a playlist; the edition current when I read it was "Nhạc ngoại lời Việt : Graciela Susana, Vĩnh biệt tình ta".
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RFI Tiếng Việt, the service's own home page on rfi.fr, whose title reads "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI" | 2026 |
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Contact route
yes, though not on the rfi.fr domain. The Vietnamese site's own footer carries four routed contact forms on France Médias Monde's site, labelled in Vietnamese: "Viết cho chúng tôi" (write to us), "Báo cáo sự cố với nội dung của chúng tôi" (report a problem with our content), "Báo cáo sự cố kỹ thuật" (report a technical problem) and "Bán nội dung" (content sales). The publisher's legal notice gives a France Médias Monde switchboard number and a postal address at Issy-les-Moulineaux. The service also links an "RFI Tiếng Việt trên Viber" channel of its own. No studio phone-in or request line is offered.
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RFI Tiếng Việt, the service's own home page on rfi.fr, whose title reads "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI" | 2026 |
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Contact page
none on the station's own domain. Every contact route in the rfi.fr/vi footer points to francemm.com, France Médias Monde's own corporate site, which is the publisher rather than the station's domain. Recorded rather than substituted.
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RFI Tiếng Việt, the service's own home page on rfi.fr, whose title reads "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI" | 2026 |
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Era
not applicable.
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RFI Tiếng Việt, the service's own home page on rfi.fr, whose title reads "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI" | 2026 |
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Music
international news and current affairs in speech, with weekly magazines covering music, society, economics, science, culture, sport and Vietnam specifically, plus a photojournalism strand and a press review.
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RFI Tiếng Việt, the service's own home page on rfi.fr, whose title reads "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI" | 2026 |
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Language
Vietnamese. The entire service, including its audio programmes, its headlines and its interface, is in Vietnamese. It also runs a French-learning strand, "Học tiếng Pháp", for Vietnamese speakers.
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RFI Tiếng Việt, the service's own home page on rfi.fr, whose title reads "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI" | 2026 |
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Kind
a produced service of an international public broadcaster, published as dated audio programmes and articles from RFI's own delivery infrastructure rather than as a continuous automated music stream. A "PHÁT TRỰC TIẾP" (live) section exists in its navigation.
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RFI Tiếng Việt, the service's own home page on rfi.fr, whose title reads "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI" | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
the service's audio is published as direct downloadable files on RFI's own delivery domain, so each day's hour-long programme is a fixed, citable object rather than a stream, and its archive index on the site goes back to 2010.
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RFI Tiếng Việt, the service's own home page on rfi.fr, whose title reads "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI" | 2026 |
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Where
Paris, France; the Vietnamese service's own "Cach nghe RFI" page says a radio set is used to pick RFI up on FM frequencies and on shortwave (song ngan) but prints no number and names no transmitter, listing otherwise only computer, wifi radio, iOS and Android apps and telephone dial-in lines in Africa and the United States; the site's separate "Comment capter RFI" page is explicitly the French-language service (Paris 89 FM, DAB+ in seven French cities, FM or shortwave worldwide, satellite and TV bouquets) and nothing on the site says the Vietnamese service is carried on any of those
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RFI, Dai phat thanh quoc te Phap (rfi.fr Vietnamese service) | 2026 |
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On air
the service credits its journalists by name on its own articles and on the audio magazines they present. Current bylines on the day I read it: Trọng Thành, Phan Minh, Thu Hằng, Minh Anh, Thùy Dương, and Tuấn Thảo, who signs the music magazine. Items produced by the newsroom collectively, including "CHƯƠNG TRÌNH 60 PHÚT" and "TIN TỔNG HỢP", are signed "RFI".
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RFI Tiếng Việt, the service's own home page on rfi.fr, whose title reads "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI" | 2026 |
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Programmes
"CHƯƠNG TRÌNH 60 PHÚT", the daily hour-long programme, published each day with its own downloadable audio. "TIN TỔNG HỢP" and "TIN VẮN - QUỐC TẾ", news bulletins. "ĐIỂM TUẦN BÁO", a weekly press review. "ỐNG KÍNH THẾ GIỚI", a photojournalism strand. The magazines under TẠP CHÍ: "Tạp chí âm nhạc", "Tạp chí đặc biệt", "Tạp chí khoa học", "Tạp chí kinh tế", "Tạp chí thể thao", "Tạp chí tiêu điểm", "Tạp chí văn hóa", "Tạp chí Việt Nam" and "Tạp chí xã hội". Plus "Học tiếng Pháp". No clock times are published for any of them; the service dates items rather than scheduling them.
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RFI Tiếng Việt, the service's own home page on rfi.fr, whose title reads "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI" | 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 |
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| country code | VN → FR | This is the Vietnamese-language service of Radio France Internationale, and it is produced in France. Its own home page at https://www.rfi.fr/vi/ is titled "Thời sự, thông tin trực tiếp - Đài phát thanh quốc tế Pháp - RFI", naming itself France's international radio. The publisher's legal notice in Vietnamese, linked from that page's own footer as "Yêu cầu pháp lý" at https://www.francemm.com/vi/legal-notice, gives the publisher as France Médias Monde with "Trụ sở chính: 80, rue Camille Desmoulins, 92130 Issy Les Moulineaux, Pháp" and Marie-Christine SARAGOSSE as director of publication, and lists www.rfi.fr among the sites it publishes. Its daily programme audio is served from RFI's own delivery domain. Since this catalogue's country_code records where a station broadcasts from rather than who it is for, the stored VN is the audience filed in the origin field. |
| language code |
vi
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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The language field is unset. The service broadcasts and publishes wholly in Vietnamese. Its home page at https://www.rfi.fr/vi/, its daily hour-long programme "CHƯƠNG TRÌNH 60 PHÚT", its bulletins "TIN TỔNG HỢP" and "TIN VẮN - QUỐC TẾ", its magazine index at https://www.rfi.fr/vi/tạp-chí/ and its section navigation (TIN TỨC, VIỆT NAM, CHÂU Á, PHÁP, QUỐC TẾ, PHÂN TÍCH, ĐIỂM BÁO, CỘNG ĐỒNG, KINH TẾ, XÃ HỘI, KHOA HỌC, VĂN HÓA, THỂ THAO) are all Vietnamese, as are the bylines of the journalists who present it. |
| homepage url |
https://www.rfi.fr/vi/
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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The record holds no homepage. This is the service's own front page on RFI's own domain, opened and read on 2026-09-27; it carries the service's daily programme, its news sections, its magazine index and its own footer contact routes. The language path /vi/ is RFI's own segment for this service, and the page's own archive index on it runs back to 2010. |
| audience country code
refused
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VN
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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The country this service is made for, moved into the field that holds it. The service publishes entirely in Vietnamese, carries a dedicated VIỆT NAM news section and a weekly "Tạp chí Việt Nam" magazine, runs a French-learning strand "Học tiếng Pháp" aimed at Vietnamese speakers, and operates an "RFI Tiếng Việt trên Viber" channel, all visible on its own home page at https://www.rfi.fr/vi/. Its editorial output on the day read covered Vietnamese diaspora news alongside French and international affairs. || refused: field not allowed |
| audience country code |
VN
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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The country this service is made for, moved into the field that holds it. The service publishes entirely in Vietnamese, carries a dedicated VIỆT NAM news section and a weekly "Tạp chí Việt Nam" magazine, runs a French-learning strand "Học tiếng Pháp" aimed at Vietnamese speakers, and operates an "RFI Tiếng Việt trên Viber" channel, all visible on its own home page at https://www.rfi.fr/vi/. Its editorial output on the day read covered Vietnamese diaspora news alongside French and international affairs. |
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 |
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| a statement that RFI Tiếng Việt broadcasts on FM and shortwave | the service's "Cách nghe RFI" page does say a radio receiver is used "để bắt các tần số FM và sóng ngắn", but that page is RFI's generic how-to-listen page covering the whole of RFI, and it names no frequency, transmitter or region for the Vietnamese service specifically. Publishing it as this service's own distribution would be network bleed.
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| the Orange and AudioNow dial-in listening numbers on that same page | they are listed for Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Mali, Senegal, the Central African Republic and the United States, which are RFI's African and American services, not this one.
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| treating "Cách nghe RFI" as current | the page still offers Livestation and iTunes as listening routes and names iPod Touch devices, and its "Tham khảo bảng chương trình RFI" link, which should lead to the programme schedule, has href "#" and goes nowhere. So the service publishes no working schedule page, which is why the PROGRAMMES field above carries no clock times.
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| other France Médias Monde brands reachable from the same footer, including France 24, Monte Carlo Doualiya and the RFI Romanian sites | those are sister services listed in the shared legal notice, not this one's output.
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| that the Vietnamese service's own programme page shows a single sixty-minute daily programme timestamped 13:00 GMT, consistent with an over-air slot | that is a schedule, not a frequency or a transmitter claim
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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.
This entry began as: RFI Tiếng Việt — listed via Radio Browser