Happy Lunar New Year 2021 - Year of the Buffalo

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On the occasion of the Vietnamese traditional New Year (Tet) 2021 – the Year of the Buffalo, Editor-in-Chief of the Public Security Newspaper, Senior Colonel Pham Khai, on behalf of the staff of the newspaper, extends Tet greetings to all contributors, friends and readers of the newspaper. Below are the Editor-in-Chief’s words in English:

Editor-in-Chief of the Public Security Newspaper, Senior Colonel Pham Khai.

"Dear colleagues, friends and readers! The year of 2020 was a special year for the world as well as for Vietnam, due to the worldwide breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has also been considered a busy but successful year of the Public Security Forces in general and the Public Security Newspaper in particular.

Despite numerous difficulties and challenges, leaders, reporters and workers of the Public Security Newspaper still stood united and excellently fulfilled all tasks assigned by the Public Security Central Party Committee, leaders of the Ministry of Public Security.

During the year, we, the staff of the newspaper, faithfully reflected all major happenings and events at home and around the world in its publication and editions.

Regarding its political mission, the Public Security Newspaper, as the voice of the People’s Public Security Forces and people, actively and effectively popularized the Party's guidelines, the State's policies and laws, directions of the Ministry of Public Security on ensuring security and order, and promoted the building of national-level emulation movements, as well as faithfully reflected the task performances of the Public Security Forces, contributing to raising the position of the Public Security Forces, and connecting the Public Security Forces with other branches, agencies and the people.

In the face of the complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic, all 9 publications of the newspaper, including six printed ones and three online editions, published thousands of articles on Vietnam's great effort to fight against COVID-19 pandemic, especially the significant contribution of the Public Security Forces to COVID-19 prevention and control.

Especially, all publications and editions of the Public Security Newspaper have focused on covering news on Party congresses of civilian agencies and units at all local levels, Party congresses of public security agencies and units, the 7th Public Security Party Congress for the 2020 – 2025 term, and the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam. They have also reflected the great efforts of security and police forces in ensuring absolute safety and security for the Party congress. By doing so, readers at home and overseas could have a deeper insight into Vietnam’s socio-political and economic situation, the sound leadership of the Party, the Vietnamese people’s trust in the Party, and the achievements of the Public Security Forces.

In 2020, the Public Security Newspaper also ran a large number of articles about the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the 130th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh, the 75th National Day and the 45th anniversary of the South liberation and national reunification while publishing carious features and in-depth articles on issues related to national security, social order and safety, national socio-economic development, culture and sports, life and work of all people, bringing an overall picture of Vietnam to domestic and international readers.

Regarding international issues and foreign affairs, reporters of the newspaper closely followed and reported on major events and happenings in the region and world in a timely, precise and objective manner. The newspaper also gave readers an insight into Vietnam’s foreign policy and its viewpoints on major international security issues, as well as covered diplomatic activities of leaders of the Party, State, National Assembly, Government and Public Security Forces, including their visits to foreign countries, their participation in multilateral forums, their reception of visiting delegates of foreign countries, and diplomatic exchange activities between Vietnamese leaders and leaders of foreign countries. Specially, the newspaper highlighted Vietnam's activities and efforts as the Chair of ASEAN in 2020 and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in the term 2020-2021.

Following the development trend of the press and media in the world, the Public Security Newspaper focused on improving the quality and effectiveness of its online editions in Vietnamese and foreign languages last year, in the hope that we would serve more readers at home and overseas.

At present, the Public Security Newspaper has three online editions in Vietnamese, English and Chinese, meeting an increasing demand of domestic and international readers for information.

On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, on behalf of the staff of the newspaper, I appreciate the supports and constructive opinions and ideas from domestic and international readers on our Chinese Online Edition and English Online Edition. We wish to receive more supports for and comments on our publications and online editions so that we can further improve the quality of our information service.

Alongside their professional tasks, the staff of the newspaper has also been active in carrying out social activities, supporting needy people in remote and mountainous areas as well as victims of natural disasters nationwide and armed officers on the frontline of the fight against COVID-19 over the past year. The total amount of money that the Newspaper has mobilized organizations, businesses and individuals to donate social and charitable programs in 2020 reached over 18 billion VND.

On the occasion of the Vietnamese Traditional Lunar New Year – the Year of the Buffalo, we, all staff members of the Public Security Newspaper, would like to extend best wishes to our colleagues, friends and readers.

2021 is a very important year for the country as it is the first year to implement the resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam. The country in 2021 will host the elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and all-level People's Councils for the 2021-2026 tenure. The newspaper of the People's Public Security Forces will do our best to accomplish our political responsibilities and provide our readers with full information and in-depth analyses of all major happenings and events in the country and around the world, following our motto: "Humanity - Reliability - Timeliness".

Thank you very much!"

Best regards,

Editor-in-Chief of the Public Security Newspaper, Senior Colonel Pham Khai