Young Vietnamese and Lao journalists step up cooperation

Vietnam’s Thieu Nien Tien Phong, or Youth Pioneers Newspaper, and the Newspaper for young Lao people, have signed a memorandum of understating on their cooperation from 2012 to 2015.
Vietnam’s Thieu Nien Tien Phong, or Youth Pioneers Newspaper, and theNewspaper for young Lao people, have signed a memorandum of understatingon their cooperation from 2012 to 2015.

The MoUwas signed by the Editor in Chief of the Youth Pioneers Newspaper, VuQuang Vinh, and his counterpart from the Laos newspaper, SubounthanKhomsacsit, in Vientiane on April 13.

Under theMoU, the Youth Pioneers Newspaper will help train young people who workfor the Laos newspaper, especially in writing and design.

It will provide knowledge of the market, distribution, management andways of creating income, as well as supporting the Lao youngjournalists’ club.

Both will regularly exchange newsand features for publishing in each other’s paper, which will helpyoung readers in both countries to understand more about the specialrelationship between Vietnam and Laos .

Theywill liaise together more closely to provide books and stories forchildren. Vietnamese children’s books will be translated into Lao and beprinted and published in Laos .

They will alsohold regular meetings to exchange views, assess the results of theirbilateral cooperation and put forward ideas for the future.

This will add to the already established friendship and solidaritybetween the two countries as well as mark the Vietnam-Laos Year ofFriendship and Solidarity 2012.-VNA

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