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VietnamPlus, AFP launch new Euro football service

The Vietnam News Agency’s online newspaper, VietnamPlus and French news agency AFP today launch an interactive webpage on the Premier Leagues in England, Italy, Germany, France and Spain.
The Vietnam News Agency’s online newspaper, VietnamPlus and French newsagency AFP today launch an interactive webpage on the Premier Leaguesin England, Italy, Germany, France and Spain.

Theflash graphics product has been designed by AFP’s experts and written inVietnamese to meet an increasing demand by the country’s huge amount offootball fans.

Apart from regular sports news andpictures on VietnamPlus, the new webpage now brings real-time updatedinformation from Europe , including match schedules, scores,statistical analysis team profiles, players and coaches’ history forfree at http://bongda.vietnamplus.vn .

“The pagewas born because matches of popular European leagues are no longerbroadcast free and most appear on pay TV channels,” said Le Quoc Minh,VietnamPlus’s editor-in-chief.

“Not all Vietnamesefootball fans have the chance to see or access fee-paying televisionstations, but the demand for information on football matches needs to bemet as soon as possible,” said Minh.

“The page,with all the latest news, which is presented in detail and in anattractive format, is expected to be useful not only to football fansbut also for commentators and football experts,” he added.

“We are pleased with the agreement to provide this multi-mediumcontent with VietnamPlus,” said Eric Wishart, AFP’s Asia-PacificDirector.

AFP and Vietnam News Agency are alreadypartners in areas like news and pictures, but in the digital age, weneed to come up with more attractive and diverse information services tomeet the demands of the increasing number of internet users and mobilephone subscribers in Vietnam , he said.

Establish in November 2008, VietnamPlus has taken the lead in applyingnew media technologies. In January this year, the online newspaperlaunched a multi-language news service on the mobile network, the firstof its kind in Vietnam . In May, it launched a mobile web version,becoming the first news website in Vietnam that runs in allplatforms – website, mobile web and mobile application.

Just one day before the 2010 World Cup started, the e-newspaper andAFP put into use an interactive sports flash graphics service on theworld’s largest football event, attracting a large number of viewers.

AFP is well known globally and has 1,400 reporters and 700 freelancers working in 165 countries worldwide./.
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