VietnamPlus electronic newspaper (Photo VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a
project to develop some national print and online newspapers in service of
external affairs of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) to 2020 with a vision towards
2030.
Accordingly, in 2020, the print newspaper Vietnam News and Vietnam Pictorial,
as well as VietnamPlus electronic newspaper are poised to become national-level
publications providing foreign news service with regional and global impacts
and undertake the task of providing foreign news in line with guidelines and
policies of the Party and State.
Specifically, the print version of Vietnam News will be improved in both
quantity and quality of news, while the online version will be developed to
gradually replace the print version and reach readers in 190 countries, 40 more
from the current 150 countries.
The print version of Vietnam Pictorial will be provided free to 160
countries, with priority giving to readers in areas along the Vietnam-Laos
border, China and some Latin American countries.
As the project aims to turn VietnamPlus into one of the five e-newspapers
nationwide with the highest visits from other countries, the e-newspaper will
have a Russian version along with those written in English, French, Spanish,
and Chinese. It is set to become an e-paper with the most multimedia forms and
a leader in using novel technologies in news production.
From 2020 to 2030, Vietnam
Pictorial will have French, Khmer and Russian print versions while VietnamPlus
will have Japanese, Korean and German versions. Print newspapers will be
basically transformed to e-papers.
The VNA currently boasts a network of 63 representative offices nationwide and
30 representative offices worldwide.
With more than 60
media products by more than 1,000 reporters and editors out of its 2,400-strong
staff, the VNA is now the media office having the largest number of products
and forms in the country: bulletins, photos, TV programmes, dailies, weeklies,
monthlies, magazines, pictorials, books, e-newspapers and information
programmes on mobile platforms.-VNA