Vietnam News Agency

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Vietnam News Agency

Company type	News agency
Founded	15 September 1945; 79 years ago (1945-09-15)
Headquarters	5 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, Vietnam
Key people	Vu Viet Trang, General Director
Owner	Ministry of Finance
Subsidiaries	Sports & Culture Le Courrier du Vietnam Việt Nam News Vietnamplus Vietnam Law & Legal Forum
Website	vnanet.vn/en/

Vietnam News Agency is the official

It exists alongside the Vietnam Television (VTV) and the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) being the official information agencies under direct administration of the Ministry of Finance.

• The Vietnam News Agency was founded on 23 August 1945 shortly after the
  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
• 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 as ITAR-TASS, Xinhua since 1949. Two years later, the bureau of the Agency in Moscow, Beijing and Paris has been opened.
• In 1954, the First 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 issued España '82 Flash News, a special publication to provide the coverage of World Cup 1982. Two months later, the weekly newspaper 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, Weekly News, was launched on May 14, 1983, circulating every Saturdays. This publication was renamed simply to The News from 1 January 1999 following the merger of Weekly News and Afternoon News, another publication of the VNA.
• In 1991, VNA begins the publication of
  Viet 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 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 name Weekly News after an eighteen-year hiatus.

Vietnam News Agency oversees the following publicatioins and programmes:^[1]

• Official site of the Vietnam News Agency
• V News channel