VNA, PRD step up cooperation in news exchange

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Public Relations Department of Thailand (PRD) have agreed to boost cooperation in information and news exchange.
VNA, PRD step up cooperation in news exchange ảnh 1VNA Deputy General Director Vu Viet Trang (R) and her PRD counterpart Pichaya Muangnao (Photo: VNA)

Bangkok (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the PublicRelations Department of Thailand (PRD) have agreed to boost cooperation ininformation and news exchange.

The agreement was reached during the 16th PRD– VNA Joint Technical Committee Meeting in Bangkok co-chaired by VNA DeputyGeneral Director Vu Viet Trang and her PRD counterpart Pichaya Muangnao inBangkok on December 2.

Both sides highlighted the efficiency of their cooperative activities, whichcovered the exchange of journalists to produce external information products.
The two sides will exchange text news and videos to be posted on each other's platforms, and organise Vietnamese and Thailanguage classes for journalists and editors of both sides.

Hailing the fruitful collaboration between the two organisations, Trang saidthat their relations have developed in a more practical and deeper manner inrecent time, with the exchanged news products reflecting issues of concern ofpeople in the two countries such as climate change, education and trainingreform, tourism development, and culture preservation.

VNA, PRD step up cooperation in news exchange ảnh 2At the 16th PRD – VNA Joint Technical Committee Meeting in Bangkok on December 2 (Photo: VNA)

The news exchange helps improve efficiency ofpopularisation about socio-economic development achievements and policies ineach nation while making contributions to diversifying information about theASEAN Community, she stressed.

This year, PRD reporters made various news products about the 16th UN Day of Vesak held in Vietnam, which got widespread coverage on the Thaimedia. Meanwhile, VNA reporters and correspondents delivered a multitude ofinformation about Thailand’s activities during the nation’s ASEAN Chairmanship2019, she added.

For her part, Pichaya Muangnao spoke highly of the effective cooperationbetween the two sides, expressing her hope that they will continue the teachingof Vietnamese and Thai languages to meet the demand of journalists in thecontext of deep regional integration.

The PRD stands ready to share experience with the Vietnamese agency in thecommunication work about the ASEAN Year 2019 when Thailand serves as Chair, shesaid.

At the meeting, the two sides also pinpointed shortcomings in severalcooperative contents, and discussed measures to increase the efficiency ofjoint activities in the time ahead.

Both leaders then inked a document approving the cooperation report andagreeing to improve the efficiency of existing cooperative contents and expandcooperation to new fields such as applying AI in journalism, as well as sharingexperience in tackling fake news and making inforgraphics, among others.

The same day, Trang and the VNA delegation visited the Thai Government’santi-fake news centre at the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, and theVietnamese Embassy in Thailand.

VNA, PRD step up cooperation in news exchange ảnh 3VNA Deputy General Director Vu Viet Trang (second from right) visits the Thai Government’s anti-fake news centre. (Photo: VNA)

The VNA has cooperated with many communications agencies in the region and theworld. Its sound cooperative ties with the PRD have contributed greatly to theVietnam – Thailand strategic partnership./.
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