Functions, tasks of VOV defined

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Accordingly, the VOV runs a system of news channels, including VOV1 for news and current affairs, VOV2 for cultural and social news, VOV3 for music, VOV4 for ethnic affairs, VOV5 for external news service, VOV6 for literature and arts, VOV Transport, website vov.vn, the print newspaper VOV and VTC Digital Television.

VOV has representative offices in the Northeast, Northwest, Central, Central Highlands and Mekong Delta regions and in Ho Chi Minh City and overseas offices.

VOV is a governmental agency and national radio station which works to disseminate the Party’s guidelines and the State’s laws, contributing to the people’s improved intellectual standards via radio broadcasting and other press and multimedia services.

The radio station is tasked with developing annual, medium-term and long-term plans, programs and strategies and submit them to the Government and the PM for approval.

It must decide and take responsibility for daily broadcast contents and programs alongside broadcast range and impacts of its works on internal and external affairs in accordance with legal regulations.

The VOV is under control of the Ministry of Information and Communications in terms of press, broadcasting and television. 

By Hoang Ha