Southeast Asia Information Port (www.dnyxxg.com) – During a working visit to Laos from September 9th to 13th, a delegation from the Vietnam Journalists Association (VJA), led by its Executive Vice President Nguyen Duc Ly, paid a courtesy call on Vansy Kuamua, Vice Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism of Laos; and held working talks with leaders of major Lao media outlets including the Pathet Lao News Agency (KPL), the Lao People's Revolutionary Party's official newspaper Pasaxon, Lao National Television, and Lao National Radio.
During the meeting, Vansy Kuamua highly appreciated the VJA delegation's working visit to Laos, believing that it would help further deepen cooperation between the news media organizations of Vietnam and Laos, and even between the two journalists' associations.
Vansy Kuamua stated that she would create favorable conditions and provide support for the implementation of various cooperation documents between the two journalists' associations; she hoped that the VJA would continue to send experts to Laos to assist in improving the professional level of Lao journalists, and also assist Lao media organizations in digital transformation and promoting streamlined and modernized operations.
Nguyen Duc Loi stated that the purpose of the Vietnam Journalists Association delegation's visit to Laos was to share relevant information and experience with Lao counterparts, understand the operational methods of various Lao news media organizations, and thus offer suggestions to Vietnamese news organizations to improve the effectiveness of cooperation between the two countries' news media organizations.
He emphasized that the Vietnam Journalists Association will cooperate with major Vietnamese news organizations to diligently implement the cooperation documents and agreements signed between the two associations, and will also send experts to Laos to share experiences and improve the professional skills of Lao journalists.
Previously, during working talks with leaders of major Lao media outlets, both sides agreed that the regional and global news landscape will undergo significant changes, and traditional news dissemination methods are no longer suitable. They stressed the need for news media organizations to promote innovation and modernization in news dissemination methods, improve the quality of news content, and attract more readers. Therefore, Lao news media organizations must promote digital transformation, apply science and technology to news content production, and keep pace with the times. (End)
