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This tag covers developments, insights, and analysis related to the news media landscape. It includes articles on state-run and independent media outlets, censorship and regulation, English-language news sources, and how foreign businesses and expats can navigate media in Southeast Asia. Ideal for readers seeking to understand how information is produced, distributed, and controlled in the region.
News media: Vietnam police accuse local editor of 82 counts of extortion
Dong Xuan Thu, former editor-in-chief of Vietnam Environment and Urban magazine, has been accused of involvement in 82 cases of property extortion, by the Thai Binh Police, as reported by Dan Tri. He allegedly directed reporters to write negative articles about local businesses, then used those articles as leverage to pressure subjects to pay to have them taken down.
Vietnam’s News Media Industry 2025: Digital Trends, Censorship, and Market Outlook
The Vietnamese news media industry in 2025 continues to evolve rapidly, influenced by technological advancements, economic growth, and changing consumer preferences. While state-owned media still dominate the landscape, independent outlets and digital platforms have gained significant traction, offering a more diverse range of perspectives and news coverage.
Vietnam News Media Laws 2025: Regulations, Censorship & Foreign Media
Vietnam news media regulations frame the role of the media in Vietnam, the role of journalists, and the content they can and cannot produce.
Vietnam local broadcasters in crisis as staff go unpaid for months
Staff at An Giang and Can Tho Radio and Television Stations have publicly petitioned provincial authorities after going months without pay or allowances, Dan Tri is reporting. This is a rare move that underscores the financial distress facing Vietnam’s local state-run media.
English News in Vietnam 2025: Top Sources, Censorship, and Alternatives
English news in Vietnam comes in a range of forms including a number of English-language news publications. There are, however, limitations on what can and cannot be reported in Vietnam with one of the strictest media censorship regimes in the world. Vietnam’s media industry is also relatively small which can mean that coverage of key events and developments is sometimes limited.
Vietnam news coverage diversity dealt blow with cuts to VOA, RFA
Funding is to be cut to Radio Free Asia and Voice of America as the result of an executive order issued by the President of the US, Donald Trump. This could see their coverage of Vietnam come to an end further diminishing the variety of news media on offer to Vietnamese news consumers.
Vietnam’s printing industry output declines in January after strong December
Vietnam’s printing industry recorded a 145.9 percent increase in January compared to the 2019 baseline, according to Vietnam’s Industrial Production Index. However, this was a drop from December 2024, when output stood at 193.7 percent above 2019 levels.
Vietnam’s already relatively small press set to get smaller under consolidation plan
Notably, the absence of local press analysis of this change, given that it seems likely at least some jobs will be lost with few alternative job options for journalists, speaks volumes to the challenges the industry faces in and of itself.
New Vietnam Decree adds enhanced digital media regulations, ruffles feathers
Of note, the new Decree has sparked interest from abroad on the grounds that it will largely apply to cross border service providers and looks a lot like it is designed to crack down on anti-government speech, and this is probably true. However, it’s also worth noting that social media has become central to a huge amount of trade in Vietnam…
Vietnam floats tax breaks for press agencies to boost struggling media industry
Mainstream news outlets in Vietnam have struggled in recent years on the back of greater proliferation of social media and subsequently a diversion of advertising funds to this new medium. It mentions that the revenue of some major news outlets has fallen considerably…
Media Relations in Vietnam: Lessons from VinFast
How VinFast has managed its brand image and narrative offers some interesting insights into the company and, by extension, how media relations work in Vietnam…
The New York Times receives licence to open Vietnam office
Of note, it’s not easy to do business in Vietnam for foreign news media outlets. Vietnam’s media industry is small and heavily regulated, particularly in terms of censoring content, though this does not seem to apply to international media outlets to the extent that it does to local news media producers. That said, foreign news operations in Vietnam are still limited in terms of what they can do…
State media laments struggling Vietnamese films days after censors ban ‘gloomy’ local film
This comes just days after it was reported that the locally produced film Viet and Nam, which is headed for the Cannes Film Festival, was banned from distribution by the Department of Cinema because of its ‘gloomy’ depiction of Vietnam.
Vietnam ranks 176th on World Press Freedom Index
Vietnam has come in eighth to last on the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index beating out Eritrea, Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran, and Turkmenistan. The report notes that Vietnam is the fourth biggest jailer of journalists in the world. In terms of economic development, the correlation between greater
Zing News is back online rebranded as Z News
Popular news website Zing News is back online but has been rebranded Z News. The publication was forced to suspend operations for three months after it ran afoul of Vietnam’s censors. Specific details as to what it did wrong were not made public, however, there was some speculation that it
Thailand and Vietnam intend to work together to combat ‘fake news’
Thailand and Vietnam, have announced they intend to work together to tackle the challenges posed by ‘fake news’, Vietnamese state-owned media is reporting. At a working committee on the sidelines of Conference of the ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information (AMRI) the two countries, ranked 106 and 178, respectively, on the
Social media blamed for decrease in newspaper revenue in Vietnam
Domestic media outlets are receiving only about half of the US$4 billion in revenue Vietnam’s media market makes and it’s because of competition from cross-border digital service providers, like social media, according to the Press Department and reported in Doanh Nhan Saigon. This is prpobably true in that social media
British newspaper hails Vietnam as dynamic content market?
Vietnamnet has covered an article in Britains Screen Daily in which the British publication refers to Vietnam’s film industry as ‘dynamic’. Vietnamnet’s coverage, however, ignores the two thirds of the article that discusses Vietnam’s censorship regime and how it is styming the development of Vietnam’s film sector. This is important,
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