Vietnam helps improve skills and expertise for Lao press team

On June 6, in the capital Vientiane, the Institute of Information, Culture and Tourism, under the Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, and the Press Department, under the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications, held the opening ceremony of a training course to improve journalism skills for Lao journalists.

Since 2012, the Lao Institute of Information, Culture and Tourism has coordinated with the Vietnam Press Department to organize 13 training courses to improve journalism skills for more than 400 Lao journalists from central and local newspapers across Laos.

Training courses on various topics related to the needs and practices of Lao journalism have helped improve the editing and writing skills of Lao journalists.

The courses were all successful and highly appreciated by Lao students for their effectiveness and good application in journalism practice in Laos.

This is the reason why the Lao Institute of Information, Culture and Tourism has continued to request the Press Department, Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam to open the next course.

In this 14th course, 42 students, who are reporters and editors from Lao central and local newspapers and radio stations, will join lecturers from Vietnam to discuss, research and practice "Propaganda writing skills for political, economic, cultural and social target programs" in all four types of journalism: print, radio, television and online.

This is a topic that Lao journalists are in great need of for their professional activities and to carry out their duties, especially in the context that the Lao People's Revolutionary Party has just successfully organized the 10th National Party Congress earlier this year and is currently in the process of implementing Resolution X to all organizations, bases and people across the country, how to deploy, organize and implement the Resolution proposed by the Congress most effectively, becoming a widespread movement throughout the entire Party, the entire army and the entire people, contributing to promoting the economic and social development of Laos in the coming years.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Luu Dinh Phuc, Director of the Press Department, emphasized that this course is very necessary and suitable to equip Lao journalists with skills to work and carry out political tasks effectively.

On this occasion, Mr. Vilaythong Sisanon, Director of the Lao Institute of Information, Culture and Tourism, affirmed that the knowledge and training associated with the practical political, economic and social life that Vietnamese lecturers have imparted to more than 400 Lao journalists in recent years has helped Lao journalists gain more experience and professional skills, continue to make many contributions to the mass media work of Laos, and contribute to bringing the policies of the Lao Party, State and Government to the people in the fastest and most effective way./.

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