 • “Domestic press and media outlets must use the Vietnam News Agency’s official information in accordance with existing regulations”.• “Ministries, agencies, localities and units concerned are responsible for proactively prioritising and providing the Vietnam News Agency with the latest and most accurate information and materials to ensure the best service to the Party leadership and the Government management so as to bring Party and State’s guidelines and policies to the public in a rapid and accurate manner.” (Excerpts from Decision No.1441 by the Prime Minister on enhancing the role of the Vietnam News Agency, issued on 14 September 2009).On 15 September 1945, less than two weeks after President Ho Chi Minh delivered the Declaration of Independence at Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi, the full text of the document and a list of the members of provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam were published in Vietnamese, English and French and circulated worldwide from the Bach Mai wireless transmission station, under the initials VNTTX (representing the Vietnamese name ‘Viet Nam Thong Tan Xa’), VNA (Vietnam News Agency) and AVI (Agence Vietnammien D’Information), informing the world of the birth of the new Vietnam.