The agency has contributed to propagate news beyond the country’s borders the guidelines and policies of the Communist Party and the State, and provide information to international communication systems, also meeting the information needs of compatriots overseas.

To this end, the VNA has a contingent of seven primary information units, eight publishing houses and a system of correspondents in the 58 provinces and five autonomous cities, as well as in 30 countries, becoming a strong voice in many important channels of overseas communication.

Thus, in addition to the news departments, in the effort to serve the dissemination of the country’s reality, the agency founded in 1954 the Vietnam magazine, the first of its kind, and in 1991 put into circulation the first and only English-language newspaper in the nation, Vietnam News.

This was followed two years later by Le Courrier du Vietnam, the only French-language newspaper published in the country, and in 2008 VietnamPlus, an electronic portal providing news in six languages: Vietnamese, English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian. In 2010, it launched the Vnews television channel.

To complement this work, the VNA has also signed service contracts and cooperation agreements with more than 40 foreign news agencies, such as Prensa Latina (Cuba), Xinhua (China), TASS (Russia), Kyodo News (Japan), Yonhap (South Korea), AFP (France) and Reuters (United Kingdom).

Also with Associated Press (United States), Press Trust India (India), IRNA (Iran), APS (Algeria) and WAM (United Arab Emirates), among others, demonstrating its reputation in international forums.

In 2025, the VNA will celebrate its 80th anniversary with new responsibilities and at a time when many historical milestones of the country will be commemorated, such as the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day and the 100th anniversary of the Vietnam Revolutionary Press, among others.

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