General Director Nguyen Duc Loi reflects on the path of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), the official State news provider, since its establishment 70 years ago. On September 15, 2015, the VNA turns 70, marking a constant growth in stature of a national media agency named by late President Ho Chi Minh. Thanks to the tireless dedication and high sense of responsibility borne by generations of VNA staff, flows of mainstream news have not been interrupted in all those years. Less than two weeks after President Ho Chi Minh delivered the Declaration of Independence declaring the birth of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, on September 15, 1945, the VNA published to the world the full text of the document in Vietnamese, English and French. During the struggle for national independence, generations of VNA reporters and technicians went out to the battles, even to the fiercest fighting sites. More than 260 of them laid down their lives. When the country embarked on an era of … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency chief reflects on 70 years of growth
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Vietnam News Agency celebrates 65th year
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
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)
Uncle Ball Works for Vietnam News
Foreigners working for newspapers in Vietnam, especially newspapers published in foreign languages, are no longer a rarity. That is because they not only have advantages in terms of language but also have love and respect for the country and people of Vietnam. That is the story of John Robert Ball, an experienced editor of Vietnam News, a leading English-language daily in Vietnam. Ball is a veteran journalist with 50 years of experience in working at major newspapers in Australia and Hong Kong. Four years ago, before working for Vietnam News, he worked for News Limited, an Australian newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, a media tycoon in Australia. In the 1960s, starting his career as a young journalist in Hong Kong, Ball paid attention to Vietnam. At that time Vietnam was in a war. Hong Kong, particularly the well-known bar street of Wanchai was a stop-over for American naval troops as well as war correspondents during their trips to and from Vietnam. Ball remembers at that time … [Read more...] about Uncle Ball Works for Vietnam News
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