The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Montsame News Agency of Mongolia signed a new cooperation agreement yesterday to tighten their pro­fessional links in the digital era. – VNA/VNS Photo Văn Điệp

HÀ NỘI  – The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Montsame News Agency of Mongolia signed a new cooperation agreement yesterday to tighten their pro­fessional links in the digital era.

Accordingly, the two agencies will maintain the exchange of text news and photos with captions in English and increase the sharing of news videos, especially documentaries on the land and people of Việt Nam and Mongolia and investment and business opportunities in each nation.

They pledged to maintain annual exchanges of reporters and continue to support each other at regional and international press forums, particularly within the framework of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA).

Speaking at the talks in Hà Nội, VNA General Director Nguyễn Đức Lợi noted the agencies’ implementation of the 2001 protocol on specialised cooperation, which, as he said, had yet to tap bilateral cooperation potential, urging the two sides to strengthen their ties.

Regarding APEC Việt Nam 2017, he said VNA would be ready to provide information about this event for Montsame, and it hoped that the Mongolian news agency would step up the promotion of this event on its communication channels.

Congratulating the VNA on its recent achievements, Montsame General Director Ganchimeg Badamdorj also expressed her wish to reinforce cooperation between the two sides.

Founded in 1921, the Montsame News Agency is one of the oldest communications organisations of Mongolia. It has 108 staff members, reporters and editors, 20 bureaus across Mongolia, and bureaus in  Moscow and Beijing. The VNA boasts a network of 63 bureaus in all the cities and provinces nationwide and 30 overseas bureaus across five continents.

With more than 60 media products by more than 1,000 reporters and editors out of its 2,400-strong staff, the VNA is now the media office with the largest number of products in the country: bulletins, photos, television programmes, dailies, weeklies, monthlies, magazines, pictorials, books, TV channel, e-newspapers and information programmes on mobile platforms.

The agency also delivers news in the largest number of languages. In addition to official Vietnamese-language news provided for domestic and foreign media outlets, stories for foreign service are written in English, Chinese, French and Spanish, not to mention print and e-newspapers in four other languages, namely Lao, Korean, Japanese and Russian.-VNS