The Vietnam Journalists’ Association (VJA) will concentrate on enhancingjournalists’ social and citizen responsibilities and ethics, amongother tasks in 2015, VJA Executive Committee decided during its sixthmeeting in Hanoi on December 5.

VJA will alsostrengthen supervision and inspection over its branches at all levels toensure its operation as a political-social and professionalassociation, according to the committee.

It willstep up preparations for its 10 th congress of the 2015-20 tenure,which is slated for August 2015. All branches of the associations arescheduled to finish their congress by June 2015.

Throughout the year, the association will organise a number of bigevents, including a Spring Press Festival from February 4-7, 2015 inHanoi, and a ceremony to mark its 54 th founding anniversary in Aprilthat will be accompanied with various exhibitions and conferences.

A big ceremony will be held to celebrate the 90 th anniversary of theVietnam Revolutionary Press Day in June 2015, during which the 2014national press awards will be presented.

During themeeting, participants also reviewed the association’s operation in 2014.Many events and programmes, conducted by the association incollaboration with other agencies, generated positive effects insociety, including “Hearts for Sea and Island,” “Spring HonouresNational Culture,” and “Dien Bien Memory”.

As partof efforts to reshuffle its organisation, the association had for thefirst time dissolved 25 branches that failed to abide by itsregulations.

In terms of external relations, theassociation continued exchanging delegations with partners in China, theRepublic of Korea, Thailand, Laos, and Cuba.

In2014, it successfully hosted the annual meeting of the Director Board ofthe Confederation of ASEAN Journalists, during which the confederationadjusted its charter to allow a non-founding member like the VJA to hostits General Assembly and take the Chair of the Confederation.-VNA