Friday, September 17, 2010

VietnamPlus, AFP launch new Euro football service

VietnamPlus, AFP launch new Euro football service

The Vietnam News Agency’s online newspaper, VietnamPlus and French news
agency AFP today launch an interactive webpage on the Premier Leagues
in England, Italy, Germany, France and Spain.


The
flash graphics product has been designed by AFP’s experts and written in
Vietnamese to meet an increasing demand by the country’s huge amount of
football fans.


Apart from regular sports news and
pictures on VietnamPlus, the new webpage now brings real-time updated
information from Europe , including match schedules, scores,
statistical analysis team profiles, players and coaches’ history for
free at http://bongda.vietnamplus.vn .


“The page
was born because matches of popular European leagues are no longer
broadcast free and most appear on pay TV channels,” said Le Quoc Minh,
VietnamPlus’s editor-in-chief.


“Not all Vietnamese
football fans have the chance to see or access fee-paying television
stations, but the demand for information on football matches needs to be
met as soon as possible,” said Minh.


“The page,
with all the latest news, which is presented in detail and in an
attractive format, is expected to be useful not only to football fans
but also for commentators and football experts,” he added.


“We are pleased with the agreement to provide this multi-medium
content with VietnamPlus,” said Eric Wishart, AFP’s Asia-Pacific
Director.


AFP and Vietnam News Agency are already
partners in areas like news and pictures, but in the digital age, we
need to come up with more attractive and diverse information services to
meet the demands of the increasing number of internet users and mobile
phone subscribers in Vietnam , he said.


Establish in November 2008, VietnamPlus has taken the lead in applying
new media technologies. In January this year, the online newspaper
launched a multi-language news service on the mobile network, the first
of its kind in Vietnam . In May, it launched a mobile web version,
becoming the first news website in Vietnam that runs in all
platforms – website, mobile web and mobile application.


Just one day before the 2010 World Cup started, the e-newspaper and
AFP put into use an interactive sports flash graphics service on the
world’s largest football event, attracting a large number of viewers.


AFP is well known globally and has 1,400 reporters and 700 freelancers working in 165 countries worldwide./.

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