Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency(VNA) and the Emirates News Agency (WAM) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) haveagreed to establish professional cooperative relations, aiming to provide thepublic in their respective countries with information on the political, social,economic and cultural life in the other country.

This content was underlined in a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) on bilateral cooperation signed by VNA Director GeneralNguyen Duc Loi and WAM Executive Director Mohamed Jalal Alrayssi in Hanoi onApril 19 within the framework of the 44th Executive Board Meeting of theOrganisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) hosted by the VNA.

According to the MoU, the two sides agreed toexchange English news, photos, and video news on a daily basis, which will bepublished on their respective news channels and provided for press agencies inVietnam and the UAE for usage.

The two news agencies will also arrange professionalexchanges between their reporters and editors in the fields of journalism, TVnews production, social media, and publishing.

The WAM was founded in November 1976 and startedpublishing news serving foreign audiences on politics, society and economy ofthe UAE in June 1977.

At present, WAM’s news is published in 13languages, including English, Russia, German, French, Spanish, Chinese,Italian, Turkish and Hindi on the website //wam.ae.

Meanwhile, with the role of a “national newsbank”, the State-owned VNA provides official and mainstream information forpress outlets at home and abroad.

With more than 60 media products, the VNA has thelargest number of information products and forms among press agencies in the country,from source news in the forms of text, photo, television, infographics andaudio to publications such as dailies, weeklies, magazines, pictorials, books,e-newspapers, websites, online newspapers, and information on mobile platformsand social networks, among others.

As the key national press agency for externalaffairs, the VNA provides domestic and foreign media outlets with news inVietnamese, Chinese, English, French and Spanish. It also has print newspapersand e-newspapers in 10 languages: Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese,Korean, Russian, English, French and Spanish.

The VNA boasts bilateral and multilateralpartnerships with more than 40 news agencies and large international mediaorganisations. It is a member of the OANA Executive Board. 

Its news published on media channels of partneragencies has helped improve the effectiveness of Vietnam’s external informationservice.-VNA