Vietnam News Agency

Vietnam News Agency
Native name
Thông tấn xã Việt Nam
Company typeNews agency
Founded15 September 1945; 79 years ago (1945-09-15)
Headquarters5 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi, Vietnam
Key people
Vũ Việt Trang, General Director
Owner Ministry of Finance
SubsidiariesThể thao và Văn hóa
Le Courrier du Vietnam
Việt Nam News
Vietnamplus
Vietnam Law & Legal Forum
Websitevnanet.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 Ministry of Finance.

  1. ^ "Vietnam News Agency: Strategic and Trustworthy Information Centre of the Party and State". Vietnam News Agency. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Agency opens new bureau". VNS. 17 January 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2013.