20th anniversary of Khanh Hoa Online

For over 20 years of construction and development, Khanh Hoa Online is an official news channel of the Party Committee, Government and people of Khanh Hoa Province. Khanh Hoa Online has been constantly upgraded in form and content to adapt to the development of information technology and the trend of modern journalism; attracting readers at home and abroad.

Remarkable milestones

Khanh Hoa Newspaper made debut on April 26, 1947, experiencing 76 years of construction and development. The latest breakthrough in Khanh Hoa Newspaper comprehensive development is the presentation of Khanh Hoa Online upgraded from Khanh Hoa online news portal on April 2, 2003, enabling the newspaper reaches readers not only at home and abroad easily and fast for the first time.

Nguyen Hai Ninh, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Province's Party Committee signs on a new interface of Khanh Hoa Online.

The English version of Khanh Hoa Online made debut on December 22, 2005, promoting the destination of Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa, attracting visitors and investors. This is the first Party newspaper’s portal in English in the Central region and the highlands at that time.

A memorable milestone is that on April 26, 2017, Khanh Hoa online news portal was upgraded into Khanh Hoa Online, enabling readers experience many new features and conveniences easily and fast.

On November 17, 2012, Khanh Hoa Newspaper portal presented a new version with many features and conveniences with photos, video clips and so on. To make a breakthrough in development, Khanh Hoa Newspaper officially presented its new version of Khanh Hoa Online at baokhanhhoa.vn on April 15. The new version has a modern interface together with many latest features, contributing to promoting digital transformation in journalism, ensuring the website runs smoothly on different devices (computers, laptops, phones, tablets, etc.). Especially, the highlight of the new interface is the Multimedia, a new media trend. In addition, readers can also experience the daily editions of Khanh Hoa Newspaper online as well as special print issues. It features many columns with various topics of readers’ interests. There is also an English version for foreigners. Besides, Khanh Hoa Newspaper focuses on developing its social network and Livestreaming to stream important provincial events on the official website and its fanpage.

Preciseness, quickness and wide spread

These are the targets of the operation of Khanh Hoa Online for over 20 years. Khanh Hoa Online has remained as a reliable official news channel. Since its debut, Khanh Hoa Online has expanded its reach to readers and viewers at home and abroad.

Khanh Hoa Online is one of the online newspapers with the fastest reports about the Damrey Storm in 2017 damage, response and relief. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Khanh Hoa Newspaper journalists risked their lives to get the latest news stories about Covid-19. In 2021, Khanh Hoa Online had nearly 65 million views, up by 40 million views compared with the year 2020.

Khanh Hoa Newspaper has updated news and stories in a variety of sectors, including policies, economics, society, culture, tourism as well as important events such as Sea Festival, 370^th anniversary of Khanh Hoa Province’s Construction and development, conference on master plan announcement and investment promotion 2023, etc.

Khanh Hoa Newspaper attracts more and more readers and viewers, helping spreading good values to the community; as well as fighting against wrong views.

Khanh Hoa Newspaper’s Fanpage Facebook has had nearly 50,000 followers with over 20 million views/ year. According to statistics on SimilarWeb released by ONECMS Blog April 7, Khanh Hoa Newspaper ranked 7^th out of 63 local Newspapers in terms of views and among the top 10 most-read local newspapers in March 2023.

Thai Thi Le Hang, Secretary of the Party Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Khanh Hoa Newspaper said, "In the coming time, Khanh Hoa Online will continue serving as an official news channel satisfying readers with the latest accurate news and stories. In addition, advances in information technology offer Khanh Hoa Newspaper opportunities in continued innovation and creativeness to have high quality articles, meeting readers’ interests and promoting propaganda effectiveness.”

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Translated by N.T