The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) representative agency in HCM City on October 12 held a get-together for reporters, sub-editors and technicians on the occasion of its 65th founding anniversary and 50 years of establishment of the Liberation News Agency (LNA).
Speaking at the event, VNA General Director Tran Mai Huong recalled the 65-year history of the agency (formerly Vietnam Thong Tan Xa and now Thong Tan Xa Vietnam ) with its great contributions to the Party and nation’s glorious revolutionary cause. He paid tribute to more than 260 VNA and LNA reporters and technicians who sacrificed their lives for the national independence and freedom.
“Sixty-five years have elapsed since the VNA transmitted to the world its first bulletin in Vietnamese, English and French that featured the historic Declaration of Independence read by President Ho Chi Minh at Ba Dinh Square to establish the Democratic Republic of Vietnam just 13 days before, marking the official establishment of a State news agency of the new Vietnam,” he said.
Meanwhile, the LNA was established from a group of VNA reporters in the southern region at the Duong Minh Chau war zone in Tay Ninh province on October 12, 1960.
After the reunification of the country in 1975, LNA was merged with the VNA.
The VNA now boasts a strong contingent of nearly 2,300 cadres and reporters as well as a network of bureaus in all 63 provinces and cities nationwide and 27 others in foreign countries.
The agency, with more than 40 publications in diversified forms, including print, audio, visual and electronic newspapers, is striving to become a powerful national communication group, meeting the country’s industrialisation and modernisation cause./.
Speaking at the event, VNA General Director Tran Mai Huong recalled the 65-year history of the agency (formerly Vietnam Thong Tan Xa and now Thong Tan Xa Vietnam ) with its great contributions to the Party and nation’s glorious revolutionary cause. He paid tribute to more than 260 VNA and LNA reporters and technicians who sacrificed their lives for the national independence and freedom.
“Sixty-five years have elapsed since the VNA transmitted to the world its first bulletin in Vietnamese, English and French that featured the historic Declaration of Independence read by President Ho Chi Minh at Ba Dinh Square to establish the Democratic Republic of Vietnam just 13 days before, marking the official establishment of a State news agency of the new Vietnam,” he said.
Meanwhile, the LNA was established from a group of VNA reporters in the southern region at the Duong Minh Chau war zone in Tay Ninh province on October 12, 1960.
After the reunification of the country in 1975, LNA was merged with the VNA.
The VNA now boasts a strong contingent of nearly 2,300 cadres and reporters as well as a network of bureaus in all 63 provinces and cities nationwide and 27 others in foreign countries.
The agency, with more than 40 publications in diversified forms, including print, audio, visual and electronic newspapers, is striving to become a powerful national communication group, meeting the country’s industrialisation and modernisation cause./.
