The event was attended by Nguyen Xuan Phuc – Politburo member and Prime Minister; Vo Van Thuong – Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, head of the Party Central Committee’s Information and Education Commission and head of the Central Steering Committee for External Information Service.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (front row, second from right) and Secretary of the Party Central Committee Vo Van Thuong (front row, second from left) present the first prize to Le Tri Dung (front row, centre) from the VNA Press Photography Department.

The organising board selected 90 excellent works to honour at the presentation ceremony of the National External Information Service Awards 2018, comprising eight first prizes, 17 second prizes, 25 third prizes and 40 consolation prizes.

The Awards 2018 attracted nearly 1,000 entries made in 13 languages in eight categories, namely (1) print newspaper in Vietnamese; (2) e-newspaper in Vietnamese; (3) print newspaper in foreign languages; (4) e-newspaper in foreign languages; (5) radio; (6) television; (7) photos and (8) books. Entrants and groups of entrants came from more than 130 central and local press agencies and 12 publishing houses nationwide. They also included foreign experts and reporters and overseas Vietnamese.

According to the organising board, the entries were of high quality with diverse topics and contents, and touched upon all aspects of the external information work, updating people in Vietnam, foreigners and overseas Vietnamese on the country’s major political-diplomatic events, outstanding international cooperation activities in 2018, and images of the beautiful and hospitable country of Vietnam.

Aside from high-quality entries of central press agencies like the Vietnam News Agency, the Vietnam Television, the radio The Voice of Vietnam, the Nhan dan newspaper and the Quan doi Nhan dan newspaper, the quality of entries of sectoral and local press and publishing agencies was also improved, reflecting external activities and special identities of localities. 

Particularly, the Awards also attracted nearly 30 entrants and groups of entrants who are foreigners and overseas Vietnamese such as Yuri A. Denisovich – a correspondent of the Russian news agency TASS in Vietnam, Youngkyu Min – a reporter of the Yonhap News Agency of the Republic of Korea...

Outstanding prize-winning works included “Dua hang nong san ra the gioi” (Bringing agricultural products to the world) and “Ton giao dong hanh cung dan toc” (Religions a companion to the nation) in the print newspaper category; “Ho hy sinh cho nuoc ban hoi sinh” (They devoted their lives for the friend country to revive) and “Bo doi Cu Ho trong su menh gin giu hoa binh cua Lien hop quoc” (Uncle Ho’s soldiers in the United Nations peacekeeping mission) in e-newspaper...

Addressing the ceremony, Politburo member and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc applauded the success of the National External Information Service Awards 2018 and congratulated the winners, while complimenting the organising board on its active and effective contributions.

He stressed that 2019 is a year of breakthroughs to fulfill the five-year plan for 2016-2020 and also for the whole Party, army and people to celebrate many major events. Meanwhile, the global and regional situation continues to change unpredictably. That has created both favourable conditions and challenges to the external information work.

This is the fifth time the National External Information Service Awards have been held and the second time the Vietnam News Agency has acted as the standing agency of the Awards since the first edition in 2014. Other rotary standing agencies are the Vietnam Television, the radio The Voice of Vietnam and the Nhan dan newspaper.

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Source: VNA