Vietnam News Agency holds first television festival
The Vietnam News Agency organised its first television festival on August 18 to mark the 7th anniversary of the first broadcast of the agency’s TV channel – Vnews.
Excellent television works are honoured at the Vietnam News Agency's first television festival (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency organised its first televisionfestival on August 18 to mark the 7th anniversary of the first broadcastof the agency’s TV channel – Vnews.
Speaking at the event, General Director of the Vietnam News Agency Nguyen DucLoi underlined that VNews, which specialises in mainstream news, has become oneof the main national TV channels.
The TV channel has made significant contributions to popularizing accurate andtimely information, countering false information, thus serving Party andGovernment’s leadership as well as meeting information demands of both domesticand foreign audience, he highlighted.
Meanwhile, VNews Director Nguyen Thien Thuat stressed that VNews hasestablished a foothold in the country’s television journalism. The VNewschannel has covered 63 cities and provinces, 30 countries and territoriesworldwide along with significant domestic and international events.
A ceremony was held at the Vietnam News Agency headquarters the same day topresent awards honouring standout television works in diverse categories aswell as individuals and organisations who contributed to the development of theTV channel. The awards included “Standout reporter”, “Golden hand”, “Excellenttelevision works”, “Excellent camerawoman” and “Versatile reporter”, amongothers.
VNews aired its first news programme on August 25, 2010. From its humblebeginning with only several news programmes a day, now the channel broadcasts aroundthe clock with 24 news programmes and 30 specialised shows a day. BesidesVietnamese programmes, the channel airs daily Chinese and English newsprogrammes along with weekly French and Spanish news bulletins.
VNews is one of the two units assigned by the State to edit the content of programmesby foreign broadcasters to be aired in Vietnam. It also posted multi-media workson social networks like Facebook, youtube, Twitter and Instagram, making theinformation more accessible to audiences of different ages.-VNA
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Excellent television works are honoured at the Vietnam News Agency's first television festival (Photo: VNA) 
