Vietnam News Agency
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Native name | Thông tấn xã Việt Nam |
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| Type | News agency |
| Founded | 15 September 1945 |
| Headquarters | 5 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi, Vietnam |
Key people | , General Director |
| Owner | Government of Vietnam |
| Subsidiaries | Thể thao và Văn hóa Le Courrier du Vietnam Việt Nam News Vietnamplus Vietnam Law & Legal Forum |
| Website | vnanet |
Vietnam News Agency or Vietnamese News Agency (Vietnamese: Thông tấn xã Việt Nam, commonly abbreviated as TTXVN; English: VNA) is the official state-run news agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It operates more than 30 foreign bureaux worldwide and maintains 63 bureaux in Vietnam—one for each city and province,[1] including 6 in ASEAN.[2] The current General Director of TTXVN is .
With more than 60 media products made by more than 1,000 reporters and editors out of the over-2,300-strong staff, it is the press agency with the largest number of information products and forms in Vietnam, from source news in the forms of text, photo, television, infographics and audio to publications such as dailies, weeklies, magazines, pictorials, books, e-newspapers, websites, online and print newspapers, and information on mobile platforms and social networks, among others.[1] It publishes in several languages, besides Vietnamese, including Lao, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, English, French and Spanish.[1] Vietnam News Agency boasts bilateral and multilateral partnerships with more than 40 news agencies and large international media organisations. It is a member of the Executive Board of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA).[1]
History[]
- The Vietnamese News Agency (TTXVN) was founded in 23 August 1945 shortly after the August Revolution. On 15 September 1945, Ho Chi Minh's Declaration of Independence of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Democratic Republic of Vietnam member list were broadcast through the TTXVN in Vietnamese, English and French.[1]
- Not long after the launch, in 1946, VNA opened its first foreign news bureau in Bangkok (Thailand)
- At 20:00, 19 December 1946, Vietnam News Agency transmit the Appeal for National Resistance, compiled by President Ho Chi Minh. The Agency concomitantly evacuate all of its infrastructural properties into the resistance area.
- In 1947, VNA transmitted the Chinese-language news called Việt Nam Tân văn (Chinese: 越南新闻; pinyin: Yuenan Xinwen). This bulletin was later halted on the following year.
- In 1948, VNA opened the second foreign bureaux in Yangon (Myanmar)
- Vietnam News Agency begun to receive the news from big information agencies such as ITAR-TASS (Soviet Union, later Russia), Xinhua (China) since 1949. Two years later, the bureau of the Agency in Moscow, Beijing and Paris has been opened.
- In 1954, the Anti-French Resistance 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 Vietnamese 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 “Việt Nam Thông tấn xã” into “Thông tấn xã Việt Nam”.[1]
- On June 13, 1982, VNA issued Tin Nhanh Espana 82 (España '82 Flash News), a special publications to provide the coverage of World Cup 1982. Two months later, the weekly newspaper Văn hóa & Thể thao Quốc tế (International Culture & Sports) was established on the basis of the España '82 Flash News. The original publish days of the newspaper were every Fridays.
- The second weekly newspaper of the VNA, Tuần Tin Tức (Weekly News), was launched on May 14, 1983, circulating every Saturdays. This publication was renamed simply to Tin Tức (The News) from 1 January 1999 following the merger of Tuần Tin tức and Tin tức Buổi chiều (Afternoon News), another publication of the VNA.
- In 1991, VNA begins the publication of Việt Nam News, a national English-language daily.
- From 1994 the VNA began to operate and own Le 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 (V NEWS) went on experimental broadcast. The channel was officially launched on 25 August, with launching ceremony was attended by then-Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng.
- From December 31 2016, the Tin Tức newspaper ceased the daily edition and relaunch the weekend edition back to its original name Tuần Tin tức after eighteen-year hiatus.
Products[]
- V NEWS TV Channel
- Photo-news
- E-news: VietnamPlus, Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Region
- Printed products: Tin tức (weekend edition), Thể Thao & Văn Hoá, Thể thao Văn Hóa & Đàn ông, Viet Nam News, Viet Nam News Sunday, Outlook, Le Courrier du Vietnam, Báo ảnh Việt Nam, Vietnam Law & Legal Forum, Khoa học & Công nghệ, Chân trời UNESCO
- Multimedia products
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY". Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Agency opens new bureau". VNS. 17 January 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
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