Financial News Broadcasting

* Vietnam Television, FPT Media Company celebrates 1st anniversary Financial News Broadcasting * Ministry of Finance decided the Financial News is the official channel

23/08/2007

August 21st 2007 , at Hanoi Daewoo Hotel, the MoU Signing Ceremony was held by Vietnam Television and Ministry of Finance, putting the Financial News program into an official channel of Ministry of Finance, disseminating to all classes of people and business community.

Also, 1st Anniversary of the Financial News program was celebrated in the witness of representatives from Ministry of Finance and Vietnam Television.

Financial News was officially broadcasted from August 1st 2006 – the firstly ever program focusing on financial, monetary issues in Vietnam as result of coordination between Vietnam Television, FPT Media Company and BaoViet Insurance Corp, TechcomBank. At her first performance, the program draws attention of audiences, particularly investors and entrepreneurs through accurate, useful and up-to-date domestic financial news as well as copyright news from Reuters which has become a favorite channel of investors and audiences after one-year broadcasting. Within a year, 600 Financial News programs were broadcasted, bridging the financial market and investors, providing Vietnamese accurate information before selecting investment in financial and monetary market which is quite strange to number of people.

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Truong Chi Trung – Vice Finance Minister said: “Over the past one year, the Financial News timely disseminates daily financial and monetary news, draws attention of branches and audiences in the nationwide, seen as a specialized and quality financial channel in Vietnam , providing accurate and up-to-date news to large number of audiences...

...Ministry of Finance believes that the MoU singing between Ministry of Finance and Vietnam Television will further enhance intensive cooperation of the two parties in information dissemination, providing more information to audiences and helping translate the financial policies into reality...”

Mr. Tran Binh Minh – Vice General Director of Vietnam Television, Head of News Session said: “We would like to thank the appreciation of Ministry of Finance in selecting the Financial News as the official channel. I believe the close coordination will bring in more accurate, quality and up-to-date information to business community and the public. Stock market is affected by different sources, even fluctuated by rumors; therefore providing accurate information to investors is responsibility of newspapers and the Finance. We hope that the cooperation will contribute to make the financial and stock market stable and transparent in the coming time.”/