Decision issued on developing national print, electronic newspapers for foreign service
Three printed and electronic newspapers of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) will be developed into national newspapers for foreign service in the 2022-2030 period, under a new decision of the Prime Minister.
Reporters, sub-editors of VietnamPlus have won numerous press awards over the past years (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi, (VNA) – Three printed and electronicnewspapers of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) will be developed into nationalnewspapers for foreign service in the 2022-2030 period, under a new decision ofthe Prime Minister.
The three newspapers named under Decision 1976/QD-TTg arethe English-language daily Viet Nam News, the multi-language magazine VietnamPictorial and the multi-language electronic newspaper VietnamPlus, all run bythe State-own VNA.
The decision details the targets, tasks and solutions forthe development of those newspapers.
Accordingly, the Viet Nam News will increase the number and improve the qualityof features, special columns and pages, raise the number of readers of itsonline version and try to reach key areas and big powers in the world.
Meanwhile, the number of countries where the printed version of VietnamPictorial is distributed free of charge will be increased from 140 at presentto 160, with priority given to areas along the border between Vietnam and Laosand China, and Latin American countries. After 2025, the number of printedcopies will be reduced by about 10 percent each year while the electronicversion will be developed in 10 languages.
The VietnamPlus will strive to become an electronic newspaper with the most integratedforms of information. From the current five languages (Vietnamese, English,French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian), the newspaper is to develop the Koreanversion in 2023, the Japanese version in2026 and German in 2029. It aims to become one of the top five Vietnameseelectronic newspapers with highest views from abroad.
Among solutions and tasks for the development of national newspapers forforeign services in 2022-2030, raising both quantity and quality of articles isdeemed very important. Multi-media products will be developed based on digitaltechnology along the trend of modern journalism, and social media will be utilizedto popularize information published by the newspapers.
The distribution channels of the print newspapers will be diversified, makinguse of diplomatic, tourism, investment channels, as well as cooperation andinformation exchange with international news agencies and press. Plans will bebuilt to popularize the national newspapers for foreign services based onspecific targets of each period.
The decision also mentions the promotion of the use of modernjournalism technology and multi-media, along with international cooperation ininformation and personnel training, in the development of the newspapers./.
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Reporters, sub-editors of VietnamPlus have won numerous press awards over the past years (Photo: VNA) 
