1. The head of press agency has the right to request the competent authorities,
organizations or individuals to reply to the issues expressed by the citizens in the
newspapers. Within 30 days after receiving the request from the head of the press agency,
the relevant agencies, organizations or individuals shall make reply in the newspaper.
2. Within 30 days after receiving the opinions, recommendations, comments or complaints
from the organizations, citizens and citizens’ denunciation transferred from the press
agency, the head of organization or agency shall inform the press agency of the measures
of settlement.
If the time limit mentioned above is over without receiving the notice from the organization
or agency, the press agency has the right to transfer the opinions, recommendations,
comments, complaints or denunciation of the organizations or citizens to the agency of
higher level having the authority to settle or bring such issues in the press.
3. Within 10 days for the printed newspaper daily released and the talking newspaper and
online newspapter and 15 days for weekly newspaper, in the lastest issue for the printed
magazine after receiving the written reply from the agency or organization having the
authorit to settle the complaints, denunciation or the written reply for the recommendations
and complaints of the agencies, organizations or individuals concerning the issues the
press has mentioned or received, the press agency must inform the organizations,
agencies or citizens that have recommendations, comments complaints or denunciation or
post the reply on their newspapers.
4.
The agencies, organizations and citizens have the right to request the press agencies to
reply to the issues which they have provided information. The press agency shall have to
make reply within 15 days after receiving the request from the agencies, organizations and
citizens.
Article 40. Reply to interview in the press
1. The interviewer shall have to give a prior notice to the interviewee of the purpose,
requirement and questions for the interview. In case of direct interview without prior notice,
it must get the approval from the interviewee.
2. After the interview, based on the information and documents provided by the
interviewee, the interviwer has the right to make expression by the appropriate forms. The
interviewee must express the interviewee’s replied contents in a correct and truthful
manner.
The nterviewee has the right to require the review of replied contents before posting or
broadcasting. The press agency and the interviewer have to meet this requirement.
3. The journalist must not use the opinions expressed at the conferences, seminars,
meeting, discussion etc with the presence of journalist to convert them into an interview
without the consent of the speaker.