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Vietnamese, Cambodian news agencies boost cooperation

11/18/2009
VOVNews/VNA

The Cambodian and Vietnamese news agencies have agreed to implement a technical assistance project as soon as it is approved by the Vietnam-Cambodia Inter-Governmental Committee at its meeting in Preah Sihanouk early next month.

The agreement was reached at a working session between General Director Kit Kim Huon of the Cambodian News Agency (AKP) and Deputy General Director Nguyen Duc Loi of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) who is on a week-long visit to Cambodia beginning on Nov. 15.

After briefing each other on their current capacity and new developments in recent years, they reviewed the implementation of technical assistance and professional cooperation agreements that were signed between the two news agencies’ leaders.

Deputy General Director Loi pledged that the VNA, in its capacity, will continue to help AKP train human resources and improve its professional capacity so as to meet the increasing demand for information.

AKP leader Kit Kim Huon expressed her sincere thanks to the VNA for its valuable assistance to AKP over more than 30 years. “This assistance is a symbol of the friendship between the two news agencies in particular and between Cambodia and Vietnam in general,” she added.

While in Cambodia, Deputy General Director Loi and his entourage had meetings with Cambodian Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam Orn and Information Minister Khieu Kanharith who highlighted the VNA’s assistance to and cooperation with SPK in the past and AKP at present.

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Deputy PM lauds links with Cambodian news agency

25/11/2008
VNA (Hanoi)

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has praised the close cooperation between the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and its Cambodian counterpart, the AKP, as an effective tool in boosting relations between the two countries.

He made this statement during a meeting with Deputy General Director Chhin Yuon of AKP in Hanoi on November 24 in the presence of the VNA’s Executive Deputy General Director Tran Mai Huong.

Hung said that the exchange of information and images between the two news agencies has contributed to an increase in mutual understanding between the two peoples and has successfully promoted the traditional friendship and comprehensive cooperation between the two countries.

He emphasised the need to further develop links in personnel training through the exchange of visits, jointly-organised training courses and the provision of technical assistance whenever Cambodia requires help in such matters.

Vietnam will do its utmost to help Cambodia, while the VNA will assist the AKP in its development in order to ensure reporting of a high standard covering all issues of national and regional importance, Hung pledged.

AKP’s Deputy General Director Yuon expressed thanks to Deputy PM Hung and the VNA for their cooperation in personnel training and assistance with technical transfer procedures.

Earlier that day, Executive Deputy General Director Huong led a senior VNA delegation to hold talks with an AKP delegation led by Deputy General Director Yuon.

Both host and guest discussed a range of measures to boost the mutual exchange and use of news and pictures as well as steps to deploy a VNA-funded technical project to assist the AKP and to develop cooperation in personnel training and the exchange of experiences between the two news organisations.