The first dispatches – news reports, photos, and eyewitness accounts – came from reporters of the VNA and Thông tấn xã Giải Phóng (Liberation Press Agency - LPA). Their coverage swiftly swept across the country and reached global audiences, capturing with the historic moments of the nation’s victory against the US, the fall of the US-backed Saigon regime, and the collapse of Washington’s “Vietnamisation” strategy.

The LPA is a unique case in the history of the world journalism. It is the news agency and mouthpiece for a resistance force, born in the midst of enemy bombs and growing during the most brutal phase of the war.

The war keepsakes not only hold historical value but also serve as evidence for post-war Vietnam-US friendship. They also embody compassion and hope for a closer future relationship between the two nations.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) celebrated the 55th founding anniversary of its former southern affiliate during wartime, the Liberation Press Agency, with a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on Oct.12.