Major General Pham Van Huan speaking at the event
Major General Pham Van Huan, Secretary of Party Committee and Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper, highlighted outstanding achievements of the newspaper during its history.
Since its establishment on October 20, 1950 in Khau Dieu hamlet, Dinh Bien commune, Dinh Hoa district, Thai Nguyen province, PAN has successfully completed assigned political missions. Notably, the newspaper received the title “Hero of the People’s Armed Forces” twice, two of its reporters were titled "Hero of the People's Armed Forces," and nine of its war reporters sacrificed themselves during the national resistance wars against foreign invaders.
The newspaper primarily focuses on major international and domestic events, covers well all military-defense guidelines and resolutions of the Party and State as well as daily activities of the whole army units, especially those who are stationed in border areas and islands and spreads articles against hostile forces’ “Peaceful evolution” plots and against phenomena of “Self-evolution” and “Self-transformation” in the Party. Additionally, PAN’s staff joins effectively in gratitude programs to support local policy beneficiaries across the country.
The newspaper has, so far, produced five publications, namely the printed daily, the weekly newspaper, the online newspaper with Vietnamese, English, Chinese, Lao and Khmer editions, the “Events and Witnesses” monthly magazine and the internal bulletin.
At the ceremony, delegates spoke highly of PAN’s performances and underlined that the newspaper should continue to effectively convey the Party and State’s guidelines and laws and activities of units in the whole army to soldiers and people, and fight against plots of hostile and reactionary forces and negative phenomena.
Moreover, the newspaper should improve the quality of publications and the competency of reporters and staff in order to meet demands of its tasks in the current context.
Translated by Van Hieu