Vietnam News Agency

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Vietnam News Agency

Native name	Thông tấn xã Việt Nam
Company type	News agency
Founded	15 September 1945; 79 years ago (1945-09-15)
Headquarters	5 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi, Vietnam
Key people	Vũ Việt Trang, General Director
Owner	Government of Vietnam
Subsidiaries	Thể thao và Văn hóa Le Courrier du Vietnam Việt Nam News Vietnamplus Vietnam Law & Legal Forum
Website	vnanet.vn/en/ (English)

Vietnam News Agency (VNA; Vietnamese: Thông tấn xã Việt Nam (TTXVN), French: L’Agence vietnamienne d’information, lit. 'Vietnamese Information Agency' (AVI)) is the official state-run news agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It operates more than 30 foreign bureaux worldwide and maintains 63 bureaux in Vietnam — one for each city and province,^[1] including 6 in ASEAN.^[2] The current General Director of TTXVN is Nguyễn Đức Lợi. It also operates the website VietnamPlus.

It exists alongside the Vietnam Television (VTV) and the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) being the official information agencies under direct administration of the Government of Vietnam.