Vietnam News Agency, Kien Giang intensify communications cooperation
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang held a working session on November 27 to review communications cooperation in the 2013-20 period and sign another for 2020-25.
Kien Giang (VNA) - The Vietnam News♑Agency (VNA) and authorities in the𒆙 Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang held aworking session on November 27 to review communications cooperation in the2013-20 period and sign another for 2020-25.
VNA General Director Nguyen Duc Loi pledged tofurther promote Kien Giang’s images, people, potential, and advantages,particularly those in the maritime economy, among domestic and foreigninvestors. Loi, who is also a member of the Party CentralCommittee, said VNA is a Government agency that publishes official Party andState information and documents, provides information for the Party and State, and collects and disseminates information via different forms ofjournalism to serve mass media outlets and domestic and foreign readers. It has bureaus in all the 63 cities and provinces nationwideand in many important places around the world, an advantage no other Vietnamesepress agency has, he said. For his part, Chairman of the Kien Giang Provincial People’sCommittee Lam Minh Thanh thanked the news agency for reporting on the province’ssocio-economic and security-defence activities, popularising its landscapes andpeople at home and abroad. He expressed his hope that VNA would continue to promotethe province’s achievements in all fields, particularly the implementation of aresolution from the provincial Party Organisation’s congress for the 2020-25term, and communications work for residents on islands and in border regions andethnic minority and religious communities./.
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At the session (Photo: VNA) 
