Vietnam News Agency
government agency of Vietnam; the only legal news agency in the country. Publishes in several languages
Vietnam News Agency (VNA, Vietnamese: Thông tấn xã Việt Nam) 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, including 6 in ASEAN. The current General Director of VNA is Nguyen Duc Loi. It also operates the website VietnamPlus.
It exists alongside the Vietnam Television (VTV) and the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) being the official information agencies under direct administration of the State owned.
History
The Vietnam News Agency was founded on 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 VNA in Vietnamese, English and French.
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.
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