HA NOI — The Vietnam News Agency was bestowed with its second Ho Chi Minh Order at a ceremony to honour its founding 65 years ago at the Ha Noi Opera House yesterday. VNA General Director Tran Mai Huong, his deputies and predecessors were on stage to receive Viet Nam's second highest order on behalf of the agency from National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong. They stood among an abundance of flowers, including those from Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh and President Nguyen Minh Triet, while an audience of VNA veterans warmly applauded. Pictures taken by numerous VNA photographers in war and peace were on display in the galleries at the entrance to the auditorium. VNA would have to lift its standards even higher in the age of globalisation with continuing development of information technology, Trong told the gathering. The various types of modern information services with their increasing transmission speeds posed both opportunities and challenges, he said. The … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency celebrates 65th year
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Vietnam’s top remarkable events in 2005 (Selected by Vietnam News Agency)
The year of 2005 ended with numerous events and great national celebrations, such as the 60 th anniversary of August Revolution and National Day (Sept. 9), the 30 th anniversary of the Liberation of South Vietnam and National Reunification, etc. Despite tremendous difficulties and challenges, Vietnam 's economy recorded the ever-highest growth rate in the past five years and many external activities have been continually expanded. However, in 2005, Vietnam was hit by consecutive calamities that caused losses in human lives and property. Vietnam News Agency ed Vietnam 's top remarkable events in 2005. The parade at Ba Dinh Square, Hanoi, on the 60th anniversary of August Revolution and National Day (Sept. 2).1 Vietnam successfully organized such grand anniversaries as the Hung King's Death Anniversary, the 75th Founding Anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam; the 30th Anniversary of the South Liberation and National Reunification; the 115th Birthday of President Ho Chi Minh; … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s top remarkable events in 2005 (Selected by Vietnam News Agency)
Vietnam News Agency signs cooperation agreement with telecom group
At the signing ceremony (Photo VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Vietnam Postsand Telecommunications Group (VNPT) have signed an agreement to reinforce theircooperation and look towards building a strategic partnership in fields oftheir strengths.Speaking at the signing ceremony in Hanoi on January 4, VNA GeneralDirector Nguyen Duc Loi expressed his pleasure to establish cooperative tieswith VNPT, one of the leading telecom companies and economic groups in Vietnam.He said VNA is a governmental agency and the official State newsprovider of Vietnam. It is responsible for publishing official information anddocuments of the Party and State, providing information in service of the Partyleadership and State management and collecting and providing news throughvarious forms to mass media agencies, the public and readers at home andabroad.VNA boasts a network of 63 representative offices in all cities and provincesnationwide, and 30 overseas representative offices.With … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency signs cooperation agreement with telecom group
Vietnam News Agency enhances relations with European partners
At the working session between delegates from the Vietnam News Agency and Spain's EFE news agency (Photo VNA)London (VNA) – General Director of the State-ownedVietnam News Agency (VNA) Nguyen Duc Loi met with officials of several majorpress agencies in Spain and the UK during his Europe trip from December 12-18to step up cooperative relations with European partners.During his working sessions with the executive of Spain’sEFE news agency, and the UK’s Thomson Reuters and BBC, General Director NguyenDuc Loi, who is also a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) CentralCommittee, compared notes about the role and operation of the press in theworld’s current situation. [Vietnam News Agency targets better foreign news services]The sides shared positive assessment on theirbilateral cooperation in information exchange over the past time, stressingthat the sharing of information among press agencies, especially major ones, isan urgent need at present, in … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency enhances relations with European partners
Vietnam news agency apologizes over false report on prosecutions
Vietnam’s state-run news agency apologized on Saturday for issuing what it said was a false report that two more officials of state energy firm PetroVietnam were to be prosecuted over financial losses. The original report had also been carried on the government’s official website. Vietnam News Agency said in a statement that it had apologized to Phung Dinh Thuc and Do Van Hau over the false report. It also apologized to their families and to police. The news agency said it had failed to verify its information “carefully enough” before publication. Thuc served as PetroVietnam's general director between 2008 and 2010 and as its chairman from 2011 to 2014, while Hau was the general director of the group from 2011 to 2014. PetroVietnam is at the heart of a sweeping high-level corruption crackdown . Former PetroVietnam chairman Dinh La Thang, 56, was arrested on Friday. The former member of Vietnam’s politburo is the most senior executive arrested so … [Read more...] about Vietnam news agency apologizes over false report on prosecutions