The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) representative agency in HCM City onOctober 12 held a get-together for reporters, sub-editors andtechnicians on the occasion of its 65th founding anniversary and 50years of establishment of the Liberation News Agency (LNA).
Speaking at the event, VNA General Director Tran Mai Huong recalledthe 65-year history of the agency (formerly Vietnam Thong Tan Xa and nowThong Tan Xa Vietnam ) with its great contributions to the Party andnation’s glorious revolutionary cause. He paid tribute to more than 260VNA and LNA reporters and technicians who sacrificed their lives forthe national independence and freedom.
“Sixty-fiveyears have elapsed since the VNA transmitted to the world its firstbulletin in Vietnamese, English and French that featured the historicDeclaration of Independence read by President Ho Chi Minh at Ba DinhSquare to establish the Democratic Republic of Vietnam just 13 daysbefore, marking the official establishment of a State news agency of thenew Vietnam,” he said.
Meanwhile, the LNA wasestablished from a group of VNA reporters in the southern region at theDuong 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 andreporters as well as a network of bureaus in all 63 provinces and citiesnationwide and 27 others in foreign countries.
Theagency, with more than 40 publications in diversified forms, includingprint, audio, visual and electronic newspapers, is striving to become apowerful national communication group, meeting the country’sindustrialisation and modernisation cause./.
Speaking at the event, VNA General Director Tran Mai Huong recalledthe 65-year history of the agency (formerly Vietnam Thong Tan Xa and nowThong Tan Xa Vietnam ) with its great contributions to the Party andnation’s glorious revolutionary cause. He paid tribute to more than 260VNA and LNA reporters and technicians who sacrificed their lives forthe national independence and freedom.
“Sixty-fiveyears have elapsed since the VNA transmitted to the world its firstbulletin in Vietnamese, English and French that featured the historicDeclaration of Independence read by President Ho Chi Minh at Ba DinhSquare to establish the Democratic Republic of Vietnam just 13 daysbefore, marking the official establishment of a State news agency of thenew Vietnam,” he said.
Meanwhile, the LNA wasestablished from a group of VNA reporters in the southern region at theDuong 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 andreporters as well as a network of bureaus in all 63 provinces and citiesnationwide and 27 others in foreign countries.
Theagency, with more than 40 publications in diversified forms, includingprint, audio, visual and electronic newspapers, is striving to become apowerful national communication group, meeting the country’sindustrialisation and modernisation cause./.
