Vietnam News Agency (VNA,Vietnamese:Thông tấn xã Việt Nam) is the officialstate-run news agency of theSocialist Republic of Vietnam. It operates more than 30 foreignbureaux worldwide and maintains 63 bureaux in Vietnam — one for each city and province,[1] including 6 inASEAN.[2] The current General Director of VNA is Nguyen Duc Loi. It also operates the websiteVietnamPlus.
The Vietnam News Agency was founded on 23 August 1945 shortly after theAugust Revolution. On 15 September 1945,Ho Chi Minh'sDeclaration of Independence of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Democratic Republic of Vietnam member list were broadcast through the VNA in Vietnamese, English and French.[1]
Not long after the launch, in 1946, VNA opened its first foreign news bureau in Bangkok
At 20:00, 19 December 1946, Vietnam News Agency transmit the Appeal for National Resistance, compiled by President Ho Chi Minh. The Agency concomitantly evacuated all of its infrastructural properties into the resistance area.
In 1947, VNA transmitted the Chinese-language news called Vietnam News. This bulletin was later halted on the following year.
In 1948, VNA opened the second foreign bureaux in Yangon.
Vietnam News Agency begun to receive the news from big information agencies such asITAR-TASS,Xinhua since 1949. Two years later, the bureau of the Agency inMoscow,Beijing andParis has been opened.
In 1954, theFirst Indochina War ended. VNA relocated the headquarters back to Hanoi.
In 1960, the Liberation News Agency was founded to broadcast news in South Vietnam.
On May 24, 1976, the Vietnam News Agency and the Liberation News Agency were merged into the new Vietnam News Agency.[1]
On May 12, 1977, the National Assembly Standing Committee of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam issued a resolution approving the change of the Vietnamese name of the agency from “Liberation News Agency ” into “Vietnam News Agency”.[1]
On June 13, 1982, VNA issuedEspaña '82 Flash News, a special publication to provide the coverage ofWorld Cup 1982. Two months later, the weekly newspaperInternational Culture & Sports was established on the basis of theEspaña '82 Flash News. The original publish days of the newspaper were every Fridays.
The second weekly newspaper of the VNA,Weekly News, was launched on May 14, 1983, circulating every Saturdays. This publication was renamed simply toThe News from 1 January 1999 following the merger ofWeekly News andAfternoon News, another publication of the VNA.
In 1991, VNA begins the publication ofViet Nam News, a national English-language daily.
From 1994 the VNA began to operate and ownLe Courrier du Vietnam, the French-language daily newspaper from the Ministry of Culture and Information
In 2008, the VietnamPlus website was launched, which published news in Vietnamese, English, French and Spanish.
On 21 June 2010, the Vietnam News Agency Television Channel went on experimental broadcast. The channel was officially launched on 25 August, with launching ceremony was attended by then-Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
From December 31, 2016,The News newspaper ceased the daily edition and relaunch the weekend edition back to its original nameWeekly News after an eighteen-year hiatus.
The Courier of Vietnam a weekly French-language magazine
Vietnam Law & Legal Forum, a monthly English-language magazine
Official Gazette, an English translation of legal bulletinJustice Newspaper, published thrice-weekly
Websites:
vnanet.vn, an online news portal
vietnam.vnanet.vn, the electronic edition ofVietnam Pictorial
vietnamlaw.vnanet.vn, the electronic edition ofVietnam Law & Legal Forum
Bnews.vn, a business news website
baotintuc.vn, the electronic edition ofThe News
VietnamPlus at vietnamplus.vn
thethaovanhoa.vn, the electronic edition ofSports & Culture
dantocmiennui.vn, the electronic edition ofEthnic Minority and Mountainous Region Pictorial
vietnamnews.vn, Ovietnam.vn, and Bizhub.vn, publications ofViet Nam News
VietnamPlus, an online newspaper
Television:
VNEWS TV Channel
Television programmesEconomic Focus,Message from History,Moments and Events,Vietnam and International Friends, andStudying Uncle Ho’s moral example every day
Affiliated withSports & Culture:Culture Panorama,Planet of Sports, andCulture Radar
Affiliated withLe Courrier du Vietnam:Francophone Space
