News agencies’ valuable contributions to US resistance war
Under the leadership of the Party, the Liberation News Agency and Vietnam News Agency (VNA) have joined forces and closely coordinated to contribute to the victory of the US resistance war.
VNA telegraphers stop at Trang Bang (Tay Ninh) to transmit the news on South Vietnam’s President Duong Van Minh announcing his surrender on April 30, 1975. (Photo: VNA files)
For 15 years (1960-1975), reporters of the Liberation News Agency and VNA always stood side by side and were present at all battles to promptly inform the feats of arms of our soldiers. In the photo: Reporters of the Liberation News Agency and VNA report on the Ho Chi Minh Campaign, April 1975. (Photo: VNA files)
Reporter Hua Kiem of VNA meets with the Saigonese to report news and take photos regarding the victory of the historic Ho Chi Minh Campaign in 1975 which liberated the South and reunified the country. (Photo: VNA files)
Reporter Dinh Quang Thanh of VNA meets the Saigonese and collects information on the day of liberation, April 30, 1975. (Photo: VNA files)
During the historic Ho Chi Minh campaign, the Liberation News Agency launched two large troops together with a number of VNA reporters closely following the main armed units, quickly reporting news on the battles and the battlefield situation. In the photo: A group of key reporters of the VNA report on the Ho Chi Minh Campaign, April 1975. (Photo: VNA files)
On the battlefield in the South, officers, reporters and telegraphers of the Liberation News Agency stood steadfastly in extremely fierce areas, operating in the most difficult situation. In the photo: A team of photo printing staff (B22) of the Liberation News Agency. (Photo: Liberation News Agency files)
During the historic Ho Chi Minh campaign, the Liberation News Agency launched two large troops together with a number of VNA reporters closely following the main armed units, quickly reporting information about the battles, the battlefield situation. In the photo: Reporters of the VNA and Liberation News Agency joining the Ho Chi Minh Campaign march to Sai Gon. (Photo: VNA files)
Photojournalist Phong Van (pen name Chinh Van) of the Liberation News Agency reports on information about guerrillas in An Phu commune, Cu Chi district after they shot down American aircrafts, April 1975. (Photo: Nguyen Duc Canh /Liberation News Agency)
Reporter of the Liberation News Agency work in Dong Thap Muoi. (Photo: Liberation News Agency files)
In the photo: Reporter of the Liberation News Agency Nguyen Duc Giap (behind) and his colleagues on their way to Saigon during the Ho Chi Minh campaign, April 1975. (Photo: Liberation News Agency files)
Reporters of VNA and Liberation News Agency on the way to Saigon, on April 30, 1975. (Photo: VNA files)
Reporters of the Liberation News Agency work in Cu Chi battlefield. (Photo: Liberation News Agency files)
Reporters of the VNA and the Liberation News Agency at the gateway to Sai Gon, early morning, April 39, 1975 (Photo: VNA files)
VNA reporters Tran Mai Huong, Ngoc Dan and Hoang Thieu pass Hai Van pass to liberate Da Nang, on March 29, 1975. (Photo: Lam Hong Long/VNA)
Deputy Editor-in-Chief Do Phuong (third left) sees off the VNA reporters to battlefield B, March 1975. (Photo: VNA files)
The telegrapher team of the Liberation News Agency send news to the headquarters during the war days. (Photo: VNA files)
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on September 13 attended a ceremony to mark the 75th founding anniversary of Vietnam News Agency (September 15, 1945 - September 15, 2020) at its headquarters in Hanoi.
As the only news agency of the whole country, the state-run Vietnam News Agency is responsible for publishing official information and documents of the party and state, providing information in service of the party leadership and state management, while collecting and providing news via various forms to the mass media agencies, the public and readers of all kinds, both at home and abroad.
On September 15, 1945, the Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, along with a list of the members of the Provisional Revolutionary Government, was made known to the world by “Viet Nam Thong tan xa”, and this was also the founding moment of the news service now called “Thong tan xa Viet Nam” (Vietnam News Agency, or VNA).
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has established cooperative relations with more than 40 news agencies across the globe over the last 75 years, strengthening the country’s external relations and international integration, enhancing the news agency’s prestige on the global arena, and leaving a positive impression on foreign friends.