Nghe An Newspaper received the national award for foreign information in 2018.

On the morning of June 7, in Hanoi, the Central Propaganda Department, the Steering Committee for External Information Work coordinated with the Vietnam News Agency to organize the 2018 National External Information Awards Ceremony.

Delegates attending the national award ceremony for foreign information. Photo: HT

Attending and presenting the awards were Politburo members: Nguyen Xuan Phuc - Prime Minister; Vo Van Thuong - Secretary of the Party Central Committee; Head of the Propaganda Department, Head of the Central Steering Committee for External Information; leaders of a number of central departments, ministries, branches, press and publishing agencies and authors and groups of authors who won the National Award for External Information in 2018.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc delivered a speech at the award ceremony. Photo: HT

According to the Organizing Committee's assessment, the entries in 2018 have high professional quality; rich and diverse topics and content, covering all issues of foreign information work, ensuring topicality, promptly conveying to the people in the country, international friends, and overseas Vietnamese information about the country's political and foreign affairs events, outstanding international activities in 2018, images of the country and people of beautiful and hospitable Vietnam.

Many works are carefully invested, have unique themes, creative expression methods, apply advanced electronic journalism technology, and integrate multimedia.

The organizing committee awarded second prizes to the winning authors. Photo: KL

In 2018, the Organizing Committee received 1,000 entries, including print, electronic, radio, television, press photos, landscape photos and books in 13 languages. The participants of the Award are increasingly diverse, including journalists, collaborators of domestic and foreign press agencies, experts, researchers, photographers, Vietnamese representative agencies abroad, foreign representative agencies in Vietnam... The Organizing Committee selected 90 outstanding works to award prizes, including 8 First Prizes, 17 Second Prizes, 25 Third Prizes and 40 Consolation Prizes.

Awarding Consolation Prizes to authors and groups of authors. Photo: KL

Nghe An Newspaper has a special report "Following the patrol footsteps" that won the Encouragement Prize in the electronic newspaper category, including 3 articles (Border routes; Eyes and ears of the Border Guard at border markers; Promoting the role of self-management groups at border markers) by the group of authors Chu Thi Khanh Ly and Nguyen Hoai Thu.

The Nghe An Newspaper's author group received the 2018 Foreign Information Award. Photo: KL

Speaking at the award ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc congratulated and commended the collectives and individuals who made efforts to carry out information and propaganda activities in the field of foreign affairs over the past year and the authors and groups of authors who won the national award for foreign information.

The Prime Minister emphasized that 2019 is the year that the entire Party, the entire army and the entire people celebrate many important events, the world and regional situation has had unpredictable changes, posing many advantages and challenges for foreign information work. Therefore, foreign information forces and press agencies need to pay attention, encourage, motivate and create conditions for reporters and editors to gain practical experience and create many high-quality foreign information products.

Besides, diversifying propaganda methods, proactively cooperating with major news and press partners in the world and modern media to promote propaganda, introduce and advertise the image of the country, people, cultural traditions, investment attraction potential and tourism development of Vietnam to international friends and Vietnamese people abroad.

First prize winning works:

1. Series of articles "Bringing agricultural products to the world" (Nhan Dan Newspaper)

2. Series of articles "They sacrificed for the revival of your country" (Vietnamplus-VNA e-newspaper)

3. Religion accompanies the nation (Le Courrier du Vietnam Newspaper - VNA)

4. Uncle Ho's soldiers in the United Nations peacekeeping mission (Nhan Dan Newspaper)

5. Vietnam changes to not miss the 4.0 train (Foreign Affairs Department - VOV)

6. The Day of Return: The Source of Memories (Foreign Television Department VTV4 - Vietnam Television)

7. The strength of solidarity and friendship between Vietnam and Cuba (Photo Editorial Board - VNA)

8. Photo book Hanoi on the path to development, Hanoi Party Committee's Propaganda Department