VNA, AFP push for expanded cooperation
The news agencies of Vietnam and France on July 20 reached an
agreement on prioritising their multimedia cooperation in the future.
The news agencies of Vietnam and France on July 20 reached an
agreement on prioritising their multimedia cooperation in the future.
This was agreed by Director-General of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Tran Mai Huong and his counterpart Emmanuel Hoog of the French news agency, Agence France-Press (AFP) during the former’s working visit to France .
The two newswire services will sign a cooperation agreement and seek to improve the quality of news and photos exchange services, as well as share professional skills and experiences and management models in the future.
Recounting all facets of the VNA-AFP cooperation, the VNA chief spoke highly of the two agencies’ information exchange services, noting that their cooperation has contributed to promoting traditional cooperation and mutual understanding between the Vietnamese and French people.
He underlined the necessity for both news agencies to expand their bilateral cooperation in multimedia services, such as providing information products to mobile phones and other modern communication tools.
Huong informed the AFP officials about the VNA’s launch of its own TV channel, Vnews, on a trial basis since late June and expressed wishes to step up cooperation with AFP in the field.
He invited the AFP Director General to visit Vietnam for the signing of the two agencies’ cooperation agreement.
The AFP chief said he was happy to see fruits in the VNA-AFP partnership in recent times.
He stressed that all newswire services are facing the need to restructure their operation models to meet the global demands of rapidly growing multimedia.
He emphasised the need to focus on developing multimedia information products as an indispensable trend of modern communications, saying his agency plans to triple its multimedia information products in the next year./.
This was agreed by Director-General of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Tran Mai Huong and his counterpart Emmanuel Hoog of the French news agency, Agence France-Press (AFP) during the former’s working visit to France .
The two newswire services will sign a cooperation agreement and seek to improve the quality of news and photos exchange services, as well as share professional skills and experiences and management models in the future.
Recounting all facets of the VNA-AFP cooperation, the VNA chief spoke highly of the two agencies’ information exchange services, noting that their cooperation has contributed to promoting traditional cooperation and mutual understanding between the Vietnamese and French people.
He underlined the necessity for both news agencies to expand their bilateral cooperation in multimedia services, such as providing information products to mobile phones and other modern communication tools.
Huong informed the AFP officials about the VNA’s launch of its own TV channel, Vnews, on a trial basis since late June and expressed wishes to step up cooperation with AFP in the field.
He invited the AFP Director General to visit Vietnam for the signing of the two agencies’ cooperation agreement.
The AFP chief said he was happy to see fruits in the VNA-AFP partnership in recent times.
He stressed that all newswire services are facing the need to restructure their operation models to meet the global demands of rapidly growing multimedia.
He emphasised the need to focus on developing multimedia information products as an indispensable trend of modern communications, saying his agency plans to triple its multimedia information products in the next year./.
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