Ho Chi Minh City, commonly known as Saigon, is the most populous city in Vietnam, with a population of around 10 million in 2023. The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the eponymously-named Saigon River is the largest. As a municipality, Ho Chi Minh City consists of 16 urban districts, five rural districts, and one municipal city (sub-city). As the largest financial centre in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City has the highest gross regional domestic product out of all Vietnam provinces and municipalities, contributing around a quarter of the country's total GDP. Ho Chi Minh City's metropolitan area is ASEAN's 6th largest economy, also the biggest outside an ASEAN country capital.
Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport is an international airport serving Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city of Vietnam. It serves Tan Binh District, where the airport is located in the Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area, as well as the rest of southeastern Vietnam. It is the busiest and largest airport in Vietnam, with 32.5 million passengers in 2016, 38.5 million passengers in 2018, and about 41 million passengers in 2023. As of December 2023, it is the 50th-busiest airport in the world, and the second-busiest in Southeast Asia. As of April 2024, it has a total capacity of only around 30 million passengers, which has caused constant and increasing traffic and congestion, hence it has sparked debates for expanding or building a new airport, of which the plan of the new airport as an alternative is under construction since 2021, and will be completed by 2025.
Vietnam Television, operating under its official abbreviation VTV, is the national television broadcaster of Vietnam. As the state broadcaster under the direction of the government of Vietnam, VTV is tasked with "propagating the views of the Party, policies, laws of the government".
Television in Vietnam began to appear in the mid-1960s in Saigon, with the appearance of Saigon Television Station. In 1970, in the North, Voice of Vietnam broadcast the first test television program. In the late 1970s, color television was introduced and broadcast experimentally. Today, television in Vietnam is available in many modes of broadcasting, with many national and local channels, broadcast or pay with more than 200 channels available to viewers. Vietnam completed the digital television transitions on December 28, 2020.
The Voice of Vietnam is the Vietnamese national radio broadcaster. Directly run by the government of Vietnam, it is tasked promote the policies of the Party and the laws of the state.
Vietnam Idol is a Vietnamese reality television competition to find new solo singing talents. It is part of the Idol franchise; it originated from the reality program Pop Idol created by British entertainment executive Simon Fuller. Starting from season eight, the show is produced by Vietnam Television and Cát Tiên Sa.
Ho Chi Minh City Television is a Vietnamese television network owned by the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City.
Hồ Ngọc Hà is a Vietnamese singer, model, and actress.
TVM Comics is a publisher in Vietnam, headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City. The company was founded in 2007 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Vietnamese media corporation TVM Corp. TVM Comics is the first and only private company in Vietnam to publish manga for the Vietnamese audience, with rights secured from publishers from Japan such as Kodansha, Shogakukan, Shueisha, Akita Shoten, MediaWorks and Hakusensha.
HTV2 - Vie Channel, is a general entertainment channel broadcast by Ho Chi Minh City Television, in cooperation with the private entertainment brand Vie Channel.
Lê Ngọc Minh Hằng better known as Minh Hằng, is a Vietnamese singer and actress.
Vietnam Television, sometimes also unofficially known as the National Television, Saigon Television or Channel 9, was one of two national television broadcasters in South Vietnam from February 7, 1966, until just before the Fall of Saigon on April 29, 1975. It was the first television broadcaster in Vietnam.
AVG Television is a payment television service provided by Audio Visual Global JSC. AVG Television develops on two platforms: DTT and DTH, broadcasting to all Vietnamese territory. AVG television supports over 100 channels, including 9 high definition (HD) channels: An Vien HD, HBO HD, Fox Movies HD, AXN HD, ESPN HD, Discovery HD, NGC HD, Fox Life (Asia) HD and Fashion TV HD.
Võ Huyền Chi, also known as Huyền Chi, is a Vietnamese voice actress based in Ho Chi Minh City. She worked at TVM Corp and is known for roles in movies, Vietnamese song lyrics for films on HTV3 and voice acting the character Sakura Kinomoto in Cardcaptor Sakura and Ran Mori in Detective Conan. She also wrote the Vietnamese lyrics to the song Let It Go from the 2013 Disney film Frozen, whose music video attracted over 20 million views on YouTube Since 2015, she has worked in Ace Media.
Hồ Bích Ngọc, stage name Ho Bich Ngoc, is a Vietnamese singer-songwriter and celebrity. She rose to fame in 2003 after winning the Television Voice Contest Tiếng hát Truyền hình HTV.
Nguyễn Thùy Chi, commonly known by her stage name Chi Pu, is a Vietnamese actress and singer. She gained popularity with her lead roles in several television dramas and sitcoms including Waterdrop, Happy Dream, and 5S Online. Chi Pu officially started her singing career in 2017. In 2020, Chi Pu was honored among Forbes list of Asia Pacific's 100 most influential digital stars.
The Bachelor Vietnam - Anh chàng độc thân is a Vietnamese reality television adaptation of the American series The Bachelor that debuted 14 August 2018 on Ho Chi Minh City Television channel 7 (HTV7).
HTV7 is a entertainment sociocultural TV channel in Vietnam, broadcast by Ho Chi Minh City Television since 1987.
