VNA enhances external relations to improve news quality

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem (middle) and General Director of Vietnam News Agency Ho Tien Nghi (second right) as members of Presidency Board at the 20th Executive Board Meeting of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA), Hanoi, October 26, 1999 (Photo: VNA)

OANA's 20th Executive Board Meeting and the 14th Technical Experts Group Meeting take place in Hanoi, October 26 to 27, 1999 (Photo: VNA)

The Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA)’s 27th Executive Board Meeting and the 21st Technical Experts Group meeting take place in Hanoi, October 3, 2005 (Photo: VNA)

Deputy General Director of Vietnam News Agency Tran Mai Huong and First Deputy General Director of ITAR TASS Mykhail Kalmykov sign cooperation agreement under witness of Vietnamese State President Nguyen Minh Triet and President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev (Photo: VNA)

VNA General Director Tran Mai Huong and Palestinian Minister of International Cooperation Nabil G.O. Aburudainah sign a cooperation agreement between the two sides under witness of Vietnamese State President Nguyen Minh Trieu and President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas, Hanoi, May 25, 2010 (Photo: VNA)

VNA General Director Tran Mai Huong and French Ambassador to Vietnam Jean Francois Girault sign bilateral cooperation deal, November 19, 2010 (Photo: VNA)

Vietnam News Agency and Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) sign cooperation deal, August 1, 2011 (Photo: VNA)

VNA General Director Tran Mai Huong works with a delegation from Kyodo News (Japan) in Hanoi, November 22, 2010 (Photo: VNA)

General Director of Vietnam News Agency Nguyen Duc Loi welcomes a delegation from the Ideological Department of the Cuban Communist Party Central Committee, September 16, 2013 (Photo: VNA)

VNA General Director Nguyen Duc Loi holds talks with a delegation from Kyodo News (Japan), which is headed by Chairman Masaki Fukuyama in Hanoi, November 4, 2013 (Photo: VNA)

VNA General Director Nguyen Duc Loi, head of Vietnamese delegation to the 39th conference of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA)’s Executive Board and other heads of delegations approve OANA Seoul 2015 Declaration within the framework of the 39th conference of OANA’s Executive Board in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, November 16-17, 2015 (Photo: VNA)

VNA General Director Nguyen Duc Loi and Agency Algeria Press Service (APS) Director General Abdelhamid Kacha sign bilateral cooperation agreement, Hanoi, June 14, 2017 (Photo: VNA)

A cooperation agreement between Vietnam News Agency and Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik is signed under witness of Vietnamese State President Tran Dai Quang and President of Russian Federation V. Putin, Moscow, June 29, 2017 (Photo: VNA)

Deputy General Director of Vietnam News Agency Dinh Dang Quang and head of the official Mexican news agency Notimex Sanjuana Martínez Montemayor sign cooperation deal between Vietnam News Agency and Notimex as part of the former’s working visit to Mexico, April 2-9, 2019 (Photo: VNA)

Deputy General Director of Vietnam News Agency Dinh Dang Quang holds talks with President of Prensa Latina Luis Enrique Gonzalez Acosta as part of the former’s visit to Cuba from April 10 to 11, 2019 (Photo: VNA)

The 44th Executive Board Meeting of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) is hosted by Vietnam News Agency in Hanoi, April 18-20, 2019 (Photo: VNA)

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral cooperation is signed by VNA Director General Nguyen Duc Loi and WAM Executive Director Mohamed Jalal Alrayssi in Hanoi on April 19 within the framework of the 44th Executive Board Meeting of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) hosted by the VNA (Photo: VNA)

Winning 28 points voted by members of the OANA Executive Board, the VNA with Chatbot app of its e-newspaper VietnamPlus secures first prize of the OANA Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality within the framework of the 44th Executive Board Meeting of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies in Hanoi, April 18-20, 2019 (Photo: VNA)

Vietnam News Agency Deputy General Director Vu Viet Trang attends a meeting among leaders of world-leading news agencies within the framework of the 23rd St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2019), June 6, 2019 (Photo: VNA)

Vietnam News Agency Deputy General Director Le Quoc Minh attends the sixth News Agencies World Congress (NAWC) in the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia, June 13, 2019 (Photo: VNA)

General Director of Vietnam News Agency (first row, third left) in a group photo with heads of delegations at the 17th OANA General Assembly in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, November 7, 2019 (Photo: VNA)