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At the time, in Saigon, there were two different TV stations immediately adjacent in downtown: the TV station of the US military and Saigon Television. While in South Vietnam there were five TV stations (Saigon, Cần Thơ, Huế, Nha Trang and Quy Nhơn), television in the North Vietnam was still in the testing period. After Saigon renamed to ...
While the television coverage of the United States and the Saigon Government in the South is increasing day after day, television has not appeared in the North at all. . According to journalist Hoàng Tùng [], former Editor-in-Chief of the Nhân Dân (The People) newspaper, Head of the Central Propaganda Department, in the 1960s, every time he went on a business trip abroad, he used to watch ...
Saigon served as the financial, industrial and transport centre of the Republic of Vietnam. [45] In the late 1950s, with the U.S. providing nearly $2 billion in aid to the Diệm regime, the country's economy grew rapidly under capitalism; [43] by 1960, over half of South Vietnam's factories were located in Saigon. [46]
On April 27, 1931, Chợ Lớn and the neighboring city of Saigon were merged to form a single city called Saigon–Cholon. The official name, however, never entered everyday vernacular and the city continued to be referred to as Saigon. "Cholon" was dropped from the city's official name in 1956, after Vietnam gained independence from France in ...
Vietnam, later North Vietnam: Democratic Republic of Vietnam: Presidential Palace: Hanoi: Saigon: 1945-1954: French Occupation: Indochinese Federation: Governor-General Palace: Ho Chi Minh City: 1946–1949: Cochinchina (under French Occupation) Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina: Gia Long Palace: 1949–1955: South Vietnam: State of Vietnam ...
These stations usually broadcast their TV programs on the frequency channel that continues to re-broadcast the program channels of Vietnam Television Station at a time frame of the day before. Currently, these stations have stopped broadcasting television after completing Television digitization in each locality, only broadcasting programs on ...
Vietnam Television broadcast from the capital Saigon on channel 9 (4.5 MHz) in FCC-standard black and white. [4] [6] However, from 1972, all important events were broadcast in color as standard. [7] The other national broadcaster was the English-language Armed Forces Vietnam Network or NWB-TV on channel 11. [8]
Following the French conquest of Saigon, the streets on both sides of the creek were first designated by n° 3, then they were given the names rue Dayot and rue de Canton, respectively. The waterway was later filled in and then by a decree dated 14 May 1877, the two streets were given a single name: boulevard de Canton. In the 1880s, the Saigon ...