Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Phu Trong on Jan. 20 conferred the Labour Hero title on the Vietnam Post and Telecom Group (VNPT) for its outstanding achievements in the 1999-2008 period.

Addressing the conferment ceremony, NA Chairman Trong asked VNPT to maintain its key role to help the State regulate the market in the context of integration and fierce competition.

This is a difficult, but honourable task, he stressed.

VNPT has developed a modern and synchronous post and telecom infrastructure for the whole country.

To date, VNPT has more than 62.7 million telephone subscribers, an increase of 90 times over 1995’s figure, and 18,800 places providing post and telecom services.

The group targets to become one of 10 leading telecom and IT service providers in Asia./.