Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam News
Agency (VNA) is a Governmental agency which is responsible for providing
official information and documents of the Party and State, according to a
recently released Government Decree.
Decree No 118/2017/ND-CP also regulates
that the VNA provides information in service of the Party leadership and State
management; and collect and provide news through various forms of press and
multimedia for mass media agencies, the public and readers of all kinds at home
and abroad.
The VNA is managed by the Ministry of
Information and Communications in terms of press, broadcasting and television.
The VNA is also responsible for collecting
and compiling information for public consumption and reference via various
forms of media and multimedia in service of the Party leadership and State
management; announcing official viewpoints of the State on “hot” issues;
adjusting direction regarding information that is not in line with national
interests; correcting wrongful information; and issuing announcements to reject
distorted information when necessary.
Performing its function as a key national
external news agency, the VNA collects, compiles and provides information about
Vietnam in different languages for domestic agencies and organisations and
foreign media outlets as well as for foreigners and Vietnamese people abroad.
The VNA is also tasked with providing
information and publishing news materials for ethnic minority people in their
languages.
It is in charge of archiving information,
building an information and data bank and managing national photo materials;
and providing information and co-ordinating with relevant agencies to provide
information in services of national security and defence.
VNA structure
According to the decree, the VNA has a
system of news units including the Domestic News Department, the World News
Department and the Press Photography Department. It also has several
newspapers, both print and online, including the Viet Nam News, Le Courrier du
Vietnam and Vietnam Plus. The VNA has representative offices for the South and
the Central and Central Highlands regions, in cities and provinces nationwide
as well as major cities worldwide.
It also has news support units including
the VNA Technical Centre, the VNA Training Centre, the VNA Media Development
Centre, the VNA Informatics Centre and the VNA International Co-operation
Centre, and five consultancy and functional units to assist the VNA General
Director.
The VNA has a General Director and a
maximum of four Deputy General Directors.
The VNA General Director and Deputy General
Directors are appointed and dismissed by the Prime Minister in line with relevant
laws.-VNA