The headquarters of the Vietnam News Agency in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)According to Decree 87/2022/ND-CP,the VNA is a Government agency, the national news agency, and akey multimedia media agency that publishes and broadcasts official informationand documents of the Party and State; provides information in service of theParty’s leadership and the State’s management; and collects and distributes informationthrough various forms of the press and multimedia for mass media outlets,the public, and others at home and abroad.
It is tasked with storing information, building an information bank, managingthe national photo archives, and organising the use of these sources to serve itscommunications activities, Party and State agencies, as well as domestic andforeign organisations and individuals. Its other tasks include to disseminateinformation in languages of ethnic minority groups, and provide information andcoordinate with relevant agencies to perform security and defence duties.
Regarding itsorganisational structure, affiliates of the VNA are divided according to three mainfunctions, namely those assisting its General Director, those performingthe information-related function, and those serving the performance of the information-relatedfunction.
The VNA has the General Director andno more than four deputy general directors who are appointed, relieved, ordismissed in line with legal regulations by the Prime Minister.
Decree 87/2022/ND-CP will take effecton November 1, 2022./.
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