In
her opening speech, Ngo Thi Thanh Hang, Vice Chairwoman of the Hanoi
People’s Committee, said the millennium anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi
is an important event of the country.
“We believe that with the strong contingent of more than 1,000
journalists and a network of bureaus in all 63 provinces and cities
nationwide and 27 foreign countries, the website will be an effective
and special information channel that diversifies forms of promoting the
1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi and timely provides all-in
information on the capital city as well as the whole country,” she said.
VNA Deputy General Director Nguyen Duc Loi said, “the advantage of
having four languages, which no other e-paper in Vietnam has, will make
an important contribution to implementing the goal of promoting news for
foreign service as part of the media campaign on the millennium
celebration in particular and the capital city of Hanoi in general.”
He affirmed that VNA will actively improve the content of the website in order to make it more plentiful and useful to readers.
Vice Chairwoman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Ngo Thi Thanh Hang,
Deputy Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism Tran Chien Thang and VNA
leaders together clicked the button to launch the Thang Long-Hanoi
website.
The website is designed and managed by the VNA’s e-paper Vietnam Plus.
Apart from information about Hanoi and activities to mark the 1,000th
celebration of Thang Long-Hanoi, the website gives detailed information
about the capital relating to its history-geography, administration,
culture, artisans, craft villages, gastronomy, among much else. It also
provides useful details on the city’s entertainment venues, tourist
sites, hotels and entrepreneurs for the benefit of both tourists and
companies seeking business opportunities in Hanoi.
To date, nearly 900 entries in the Vietnamese language and hundreds
of others in other languages have been posted on the website.
The photo albums include rare photos of the ancient quarter of Hanoi, Long Bien Bridge and collections of maps of Hanoi from the 19th century.