The website is available in Vietnamese and English. (Photo: VNA) At the launch, VNAGeneral Director Vu Viet Trang said VNA has started an information drive on theregional sporting event early.
According to her, thenational news agency has signed a communication cooperation agreement with theInformation-Communication Sub-Committee of the SEA Games 31 OrganisingCommittee.
The VNA also mobilised all its network in and outside the country toparticipate in covering the event.
As a result, the SEAGames 31 website of VNA provides latest information in numerous forms, fromtext, photo, video clip to infographic and other new media forms, in twolanguages – Vietnamese and English.
As a communicationpartner of the Information-Communication Sub-Committee of the SEA Games 31Organising Committee, the website is also linked to the official website of SEAGames 31.
“The VNA, as a memberof the Organisation ofAsia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA), has informed other OANA members on the SEAGames,” the General Director said, adding that it is an opportunity to send a messageto international friends on the country’s re-opening and invite them to Vietnam.
Officials launch the special website on SEA Games 31 on May 4. (Photo: VNA) He expressed a hopethat the website will update in the fastest and most accurate mannerinformation about SEA Games 31.
The VNA’s website isdesigned using a convergent model. It is linked with the multi-media system andthe content management network of the VNA, and the website of the OrganisingBoard of SEA Games 31 for the timely update on official information about theevent.
With a modern and highly-interactive interface, the website offers not only latestnews on the regional sport event, but also information about the 30 previousSEA Games.
The VNA has made efforts to provide vivid and comprehensive services andinformation, meeting the demand of press agencies and the public people in andoutside Southeast Asia. Information about SEA Games 31 in English has also beenshared with foreign news agencies that are the VNA’s partners, and published onthe website of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA). Pressagencies are provided with an embed code to automatically get updates from theVNA's special website.
The VNA has also coordinated with the Sub-Committee for Information andCommunications of SEA Games 31 to organise a photo exhibition displaying 100large-size photos that integrate hundreds of smaller photos featuringimpressive moments of the Vietnamese delegation during different versions ofSEA Games. The photo exhibition will be held at the press centre for SEA Games31, located in the National Convention Centre./.
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