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Vietnam News Agency (VNA)

As a state-owned agency under the Vietnamese Government, the VNA (Vietnam News Agency) functions as the official information channel of Vietnam, delivering official information and documents of the Communist Party and the State. It provides information for party leadership and state management; gathers and publicizes information through different media channels to people and organizations inside and outside the country.

To perform its assigned functions and tasks, besides its headquarters in Hanoi with units assisting the General Director, news and photo departments, newspapers, bulletins, technical and service centers, businesses and a publishing house, the VNA has representative offices in southern Ho Chi Minh City and central Da Nang city, domestic bureaus in 63 provinces and cities nationwide and 27 overseas bureaus located in all five continents of the globe.

The VNA has bilateral and multilateral cooperative relations with 42 foreign or international news agencies and media organizations. It is a member of several international news organizations, including the Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool (NANAP), the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA), and the News Agencies World Congress (NAWC).

After more than six decades of development, under the leadership of the Vietnam Communist Party, the VNA has grown into a reliable source of information for the Party and the State, and a prestigious news agency in the region, looking forward to become a media group.

 VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY (VNA)

address:
#5 Ly Thuong Kiet,
Hanoi,
Vietnam

telephone:
+84 (0)4 38255443

fax:
+84 (0)4 38252984

email:
btk@vnanet.vn

website:
http://news.vnanet.vn

Director General:
Mr. Tran Mai Huong

Deputy General Directors:
Mr. Ha Minh Hue
Mr. Nguyen Duc Loi
Mr. Ngo Ha Thai
Mr. Nguyen Hoai Duong

Head of the Editorial Secretariat :
Mr. Mai Quang Huy

In charge of AsiaNet operations:
Mrs. Vu Viet Trang
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President Nguyen Minh Triet (right) receives Prince Alwaleed Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.

President Nguyen Minh Triet (right) receives Prince Alwaleed Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.
http://vietnam.vnanet.vn/Internet/en-US/43/114/Default.aspx

 Foreign-invested sector obtains trade surplus

Hanoi (VNA) – The foreign-invested sector earned a trade surplus of 1.22 billion USD in the first seven months of the year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

In seven months the sector’s exports, including crude oil, hit 20.6 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 26.7 percent. Meanwhile, its import turnover was 19.45 billion USD, up 46.4 percent.

The department also said the country’s disbursement of foreign direct investment (FDI) in July and in the first seven months of the year were optimistic. So far this year, 6.4 billion USD was disbursed, equal to two thirds of the yearly plan.

In July, the country licensed an additional 95 foreign-invested projects with a combined registered capital of 508 million USD, bringing the total number of newly-licensed projects in seven months to 533 and the registered capital to 8.4 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 5.4 percent.

In addition, 16 existing projects increased their capital in July by a total 190 million USD, bringing the amount of capital added to existing projects in the Jan-July period to 715 million USD.

Countries and territories with high investment capital in Vietnam in the reviewed period were the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, Japan, the US, Taiwan, Cayman Islands, China, Singapore and Russia.