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In the category which VNA’s project won - Best Project for News Literacy, entries must comprise projects aimed at enhancing news literacy skills, promote critical thinking and further the smart consumption of news. Projects that demonstrate strong evidence of success in engaging a specific audience or age group will be granted extra credit. … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency’s anti-fake news project wins international press award

The Prime Minister said the VNA was established right after the country gained independence and had matured during the nation’s wars. The agency’s staff not only reported events as historical witnesses, but journalists of the VNA were also soldiers, carrying not only their pens to the frontline but also guns in their hands, directly participating in historical events. … [Read more...] about PM urges Vietnam News Agency to continue to pioneer in communication and publicity work

Currently VNA boasts bilateral and multilateral partnerships with more than 40 news agencies and large international media organisations and is a member of the Executive Board of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA), which affirms its unceasingly rising role at regional and global media forums. It also maintains the largest photo archive in the country, with more than a million valuable documentary images, including tens of thousands of original photos on the country’s revolutionary struggle, along with more than 5,000 photos of President Ho Chi Minh and thousands of others reflecting the 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam. As the country has entered a period of industrialisation, modernisation, and international integration, VNA has moved itself into a new era of development in organisation, management, operation, news production, and equipment. The growth in science and technology has opened up a new period for the communications sector in general and VNA in … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency – 75 years of pride

First of all, I would like to express my sincerest congratulation on the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Vietnam News Agency. As a Vietnam’s representative news agency, VNA has achieved sustained growth and development since its birth in 1945. In particular, it has made remarkable development under Mr. Nguyen Duc Loi’s excellent leadership over the last decade, actively coping with rapidly-changing media environment and leading a digital new media market. As key news agencies representing South Korean and Vietnam respectively, Yonhap and VNA have maintained close exchanges and cooperation for a long period of time. Both agencies have cooperated closely in a variety of fields for a long time, including personal exchanges in both levels of top management and employees and news content exchange. I had the opportunity of participating in the OANA Executive Board Meeting, which was hosted by VNA in Hanoi on April, 2019. I was deeply moved by VNA’s … [Read more...] about Yonhap President congratulates Vietnam News Agency on 75th founding day

The leader said that since September 15, 1945, when the agency, known as “Viet Nam Thong tan xa” at the time, aired the full text of the Declaration of Independence and the list of the members of the provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam), it has always been accompanying the nation. During the country’s struggles for national independence and reunification, VNA reporters fulfilled their mission of sustaining the flow of information to readers in Vietnam and overseas. … [Read more...] about Party chief congratulates Vietnam News Agency on 75th anniversary