FUNCTIONS, TASKS, POWERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY
On August 1, 2013, the Government promulgated Decree No. 88/2013/ND-CP on defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Vietnam News Agency. The Vietnam News Agency is a government-attached agency which performs the function of a state news agency in the publication of news and official documents of the Party and the State; supplies information for the requirements of the Party leadership and state management; collects and disseminates information through various means of communication to supply for mass media agencies and the public and to meet demands at home and abroad. Specifically, Vietnam News Agency has the responsibilities to collect, compile, publish and disseminate information products to supply for mass media agencies, the public and to meet demands at home and abroad; to produce and broadcast the television news channel to perform essential political and information tasks of the nation; to perform the foreign service news task assigned by the Party and the State; to collect and disseminate information about Vietnam in various languages for domestic agencies
and organizations, foreign news and press agencies, foreigners and overseas Vietnamese; to perform the tasks of information and propaganda for mountainous ethnic people in their spoken and written languages… The General Director of the Vietnam News Agency is appointed and removed from office by the Prime Minister; and shall take responsibility before the Government and the Prime Minister for all activities of the Vietnam News Agency. The General Director of the Vietnam News Agency gets support from 05 assisting units; 21 information units and 05 information service units. The General Director of the Vietnam News Agency shall specify the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of attached units and appoint or remove from office heads and 3 deputy heads at most for each attached unit…
This Decree takes effect on September 15, 2013.
This Decision takes effect on the date of its signing.
