The chief editor of Nhan Dan (People) Newspaper, Dinh The Huynh, was re-elected as Chair of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association at its congress from August 10-12 in Hanoi. VietNamNet Bridge – The chief editor of Nhan Dan (People) Newspaper, Dinh The Huynh, was re-elected as Chair of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association at its congress from August 10-12 in Hanoi.

Mr. Dinh The Huynh.

Huynh, 57, is a member of the Party Central Committee and the editor-in-chief of The People Newspaper, the voice of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

The congress also elected the new executive board with 51 members for the 2010-2015 terms, including four vice chairmen: Ta Ngoc Tan (chief editor of the Communist Magazine); Ha Minh Hue city (Deputy General Director of the Vietnam News Agency); Ma Dieu Cuong (HCM City Journalists’ Association chair); and Pham Quoc Toan (Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association).

The 9^th congress of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association drew more than 400 delegates, who represented over 17,000 members. Among them were senior journalists like Phan Quang and Huu Tho.

Speaking at the congress, National Assembly Chair Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized that the Party and State always supports the creative efforts of journalists to contribute to Vietnam’s development. He praised the association’s achievements and called on journalists to uphold their patriotic tradition and take advantage of creativity and brainpower to fulfill all their targets.

As the voice of the Party, the State, socio-political organisations, and the public, journalists need to encourage national unity and public involvement in the renewal process and in national industrialisation and modernisation so that Vietnam can achieve its goal of becoming a strong country with prosperous citizens living in a just, democratic, and civilised society, Trong recited.

According to the NA Chair, it is essential for journalists to provide true and objective information and their dissemination of information must be accurate, timely and interesting to properly raise public awareness of Party and State policies and guidelines.

In his speech, Dinh The Huynh highlighted the role of online journalism and mentioned a big problem: journalists being hindered and even assaulted while practicing their job. To solve this problem, he said, assaults against journalists must be reported quickly and accurately on the media to make pressure on the authorities to quickly deal with such cases.

On behalf of journalists, Huynh proposed to recognize journalists’ activities as doing public services and obstructing journalists’ legal activities would be considered as obstructing the execution of public duties.

PV