History

• The Vietnamese News Agency (TTXVN) was founded in 1945 shortly after the August Revolution
  August Revolution
  On August 19, 1945, the Việt Minh under Hồ Chí Minh began the August General Uprising Tổng Khởi Nghĩa, which was soon renamed the August Revolution . Whether or not this series of events should be called a "revolution" is disputable; what is clear is that, from August 19 onwards, demonstrations and...
  
  . On September 15, 1945, Ho Chi Minh
  Ho Chi Minh
  Hồ Chí Minh , born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam...
  
  's Declaration of Independence of Vietnam
  Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  The Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was written by Hồ Chí Minh, and announced in public at the Ba Đình flower garden on September 2, 1945. It led to the secession of North Vietnam.-History:Vietnam became a colony of France in the late nineteenth century...
  
   was broadcast through the TTXVN in Vietnamese
  Vietnamese language
  Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...
  
  , English
  English language
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   and French
  French language
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• In 1947, news in Chinese
  Chinese language
  The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
  
   was first broadcast but halted a year later.
• In 1960, the Liberation News Agency was founded to broadcast news in South Vietnam.
• In 1976-1977, the Vietnamese News Agency and the Liberation News Agency were merged under the name the Vietnamese News Agency.
• In 1991, begins publication of Việt Nam News
  Viet Nam News
  Việt Nam News is a daily English-language newspaper, published in Hanoi by the Vietnam News Agency, the news service of the government of Vietnam. The newspaper was first published in 1991. It is published seven days a week and is a member of the Asia News Network.-External links:* * * *...
  
  , a national English-language daily.
• In 2008, the VietnamPlus website was launched, which published news in Vietnamese, English, French and Spanish.