TASS became "the central information agency of the whole Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic". In July 1925 the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union ("Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza", TASS) was established by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, and took over the duties of the ROSTA as the country's central information agency. TASS enjoyed "exclusive right to gather and distribute information outside the Soviet Union, as well as the right to distribute foreign and domestic information within the Soviet Union, and manage the news agencies of the Soviet republics". Official state information was delivered as the "TASS Report"
Vietnam News Agency Vietnam News Agency The Vietnam News Agency (VNA), a governmental agency, is the official state news provider of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. As the only news agency of the whole country, the state-run VNA is responsible for publishing official information and documents of the party and state, providing information in service of the party leadership and state management, while collecting and providing news via various forms to the mass media agencies, the public and readers of all kinds, both at home and abroad. The VNA is headquartered at 5 Lý Thường Kiệt Street, Hanoi, in the National News Centre.