44 works were awarded the 5th National Press Award on preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity.

Photo caption — Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the 5th National Press Awards Ceremony for Anti-Corruption, Wastefulness and Negativity, 2024-2025. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA

This is one of the meaningful events to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam National United Front - Vietnam Fatherland Front Traditional Day (November 18, 1930 - November 18, 2025), thereby honoring outstanding journalistic works on the topic of preventing and combating corruption, waste, and negativity; encouraging and motivating journalists nationwide, continuing to strongly promote the role of the press in detecting, fighting, and condemning acts of corruption, waste, and negativity.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended and spoke at the award ceremony.

Also attending were comrades: Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission, Permanent Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity Phan Dinh Trac; Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Member of the Central Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity, Head of the Steering Committee of the National Press Award for preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity Do Van Chien; Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan; comrades of the Party Central Committee, alternate members of the Party Central Committee, leaders of departments, ministries, branches, and the Vietnam Fatherland Front in the Central and Hanoi; representatives of leaders of press agencies in the Central and local levels, and authors/groups of authors whose works were honored at the Award Ceremony.

At the ceremony, 4 works won A prizes, which are a series of 3 articles "Veterans persistently fight against 'Internal invaders'" by author Do Phu Tho published in the Vietnam Veterans Newspaper; a series of 5 articles "Fighting waste in the field of science and technology" by a group of authors: Nguyen Thi Hong, Nguyen Van Loc published in the Electronic Auditing Newspaper; the work "What to do with redundant headquarters?" by a group of authors: Mai Kieu Tuyet, Tang Thi Hai Ha, Nguyen Thi Yen broadcast on VOV Traffic, Voice of Vietnam; the work "Paradox of investment in waste treatment by technology" by a group of authors: Xuan Dung, Lien Lien, Linh Thuy, Quy Thong, Duy Cong, Minh Duc, Dinh Hung broadcast on VTV1, Vietnam Television.

Along with that, the Organizing Committee awarded 10 B prizes; 12 C prizes; 18 Encouragement prizes to the authors.

Vietnam News Agency has one work that won the B prize, which is the special Mega Story work "Fighting against land waste - Streamlining the apparatus: 'The urgent revolution for the country to rise up'" by the group of authors: Vo Manh Hung, Nguyen Hoai Nam, Doan Minh Anh published on the VietnamPlus e-newspaper.

According to the assessment of the Final Jury, after 2 years of implementation, as of July 31, 2025, the Organizing Committee of the Award has received 1,110 press works submitted in 4 categories: Print, Electronic, Radio, Television from 90 press agencies at the central and local levels. With the spirit of democracy, objectivity, impartiality and high responsibility, the members of the Final Jury have reviewed and unanimously selected 44 best works to award prizes.

The works submitted to the 5th award were evaluated as timely and comprehensively reflecting the Party and State's fight against corruption, waste and negativity with the motto of perseverance, continuity, no forbidden areas, no exceptions. Reporters, journalists and press agencies have expanded the content and topics of reflection on waste prevention and control under the direction of General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Central Steering Committee on corruption prevention and control, waste and negativity. Many works are of good quality, timely, highly discoverable, demonstrating the dedication of journalists, determination and courage to stick to the end of corruption, waste and negativity cases, overcoming difficulties, pressure and dangers that may come to themselves and their families during the process of reflecting on corruption and negativity cases. From there, press works are created that have a ripple effect and a huge social impact, bringing about effectiveness and positive changes in the fight against corruption, waste, and negativity.

Many award-winning works were highly appreciated by the Final Jury on the topic of preventing and combating corruption, waste, and negativity in both the State and non-State sectors, such as: the work "Paradox of investment in waste treatment using technology" by Vietnam Television; the work "Fighting waste in the field of science and technology" published on the Auditing Electronic Newspaper; the work "What to do with redundant headquarters" broadcast on VOV Traffic, Voice of Vietnam.

In addition, many works have focused on reflecting, condemning, fighting, and handling acts of corruption, waste, and negativity, especially acts of collusion and connection between enterprises and degenerate officials, on the issue of taking advantage of policies for corruption, negative phenomena in society, or controlling power to prevent and combat negativity such as: the work "Controlling power to prevent and combat corruption and negativity in investigation, prosecution, trial, and execution activities" published in the Internal Affairs Magazine; the work "There are group interests in the sale of public land in Thanh Hoa" published in the Vietnam Law Newspaper; the work "Eliminate the problem of 'cronyism' between officials and enterprises" published in the Ho Chi Minh City Law Newspaper; the work "Profiting out policies by mountainous students in a highland border district" published in the Law Protection Newspaper.

This year's award featured works reflecting good people and good deeds in the fight against corruption, waste, and negativity. A typical example is the work: "Veterans persistently fight internal invaders" published in the Vietnam Veterans Newspaper. Veterans who fought and won in the wars against foreign invaders are now pioneers and shock troops on the front lines, persistently fighting against corruption, waste, and negativity to build and develop the country, strengthening people's trust in the Party and State. Many works have good quality, high discovery, demonstrating the dedication and persistence of journalists in investigating corruption and negative incidents, creating a huge social impact, bringing positive results in the fight against corruption and negative incidents through diverse and vivid topics in the modern journalism style, comprehensively reflecting the determination of the Party and State, the involvement of functional agencies, the response and active participation of all classes of people in the fight against corruption and negative incidents from the Central to local levels.

The works participating in this year's competition have been invested in by authors and groups of authors in terms of journalistic technology, presentation form, and diverse and vivid topics in the style and trends of modern journalism, reflecting quite comprehensively the determination of the Party, the State, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the involvement of functional agencies, the response and active participation of all classes of people in the fight against corruption, negativity, and waste from the Central to the local levels. A typical example is the work: "Fighting against land waste - Streamlining the apparatus: 'An urgent revolution for the country to rise up'", published on the VietnamPlus e-newspaper, Vietnam News Agency, presented in a special Mega Story style.

The works submitted for the award are the crystallization of the journalists' hard work, overcoming all difficulties, pressures, and even dangers during their work to produce journalistic works with high fighting spirit and profound humanity. The new point of this Award is that there have been more works written on the topic of preventing and combating negativity, which have been highly appreciated by the Steering Committee and the Organizing Committee; at the same time, there have also been more works on the topic of praising and encouraging brave examples in the fight against corruption and negativity, which have had a widespread impact in society.

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