During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh often spends time reading, commenting on, and directly approving VNA’s news articles. (Photo: VNA)
VNA reporter Dinh Chuong (standing behind President Ho Chi Minh) coveres the event of the President casting his vote in the People’s Council elections at all levels (April 1969). (Photo: VNA)
President Ho Chi Minh giving advice to VNA female reporter Tue Oanh on how to write news while covering the third National Assembly election (April 26, 1964). (Fhoto: VNA archives)
VNA reporter Bui Dinh Tuy (pen name Dinh Thuy, seated third from left) together with domestic and foreign journalists honoured to pose with President Ho Chi Minh at the third National Party Congress (September 1960). (Photo: VNA)
President Ho Chi Minh, Vice President Ton Duc Thang, and Comrade Truong Chinh in a souvenir photo with news agency and press reporters serving the third National Party Congress (1960). Sitting between President Ho Chi Minh and Comrade Truong Chinh is journalist Huynh Thi Huong (VNA reporter), while the man wearing glasses seated behind President Ho is journalist Le Ba Thuyen (Deputy Director of VNA). (Fhoto: VNA archives)
President Ho Chi Minh’s handwritten edits on a VNA news item. (Photo: VNA)
President Ho Chi Minh’s handwritten edits on a VNA news item. (Photo: VNA)
President Ho Chi Minh giving cigarette to journalist Lam Hong Long – the author of the famous photo feauring Uncle Ho leading a group in singing the song “Solidarity.” (Fhoto: VNA archives)
VNA reporter Vo The Ai (standing behind President Ho Chi Minh) accompanies the President to cover his visit to the Thac Huong dam project (Thai Nguyen) on January 25, 1955. (Photo: VNA)
In 1952, President Ho Chi Minh visits the VNA base in Son Duong, Tuyen Quang, and reminds reporters and staff: “The faster the news, the sooner the resistance will triumph.” In the photo: President Ho Chi Minh with the families of VNA staff during the resistance war against the French in Tuyen Quang (1952). (Photo: VNA)
VNA 80 years on: Always remembering President Ho Chi Minh’s teachings and guidance
On September 15, 1945, the Viet Nam News Agency – a name penned by President Ho Chi Minh himself – broadcast the full text of the Declaration of Independence along with the list of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam in three languages: Vietnamese, English, and French. That sacred moment has since become the traditional day of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA). Over the past 80 years, VNA’s development has been profoundly shaped by Uncle Ho’s teachings, the news items bearing his edits, and the tireless efforts of generations of its staff.
