Binh Thuan Newspaper reporter wins Dien Hong Award

Recently, at the Vietnam - Soviet Friendship Labor Cultural Palace ( Hanoi ), the first National Press Award ceremony on the National Assembly and People's Councils (Dien Hong Award) took place.

Attending the ceremony were President Vo Van Thuong; National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue; National Assembly Standing Vice Chairman, Head of the Steering Committee of the Award Tran Thanh Man; Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics , Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council Nguyen Xuan Thang; Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen and many other Party and State leaders.

*Author Thu Ha - Binh Thuan Newspaper (4th from left) received the Dien Hong Encouragement Prize.*

According to the organizers, after more than 4 months of launching, the first Dien Hong Award received more than 3,300 press entries from 171 domestic and international press agencies, 7 National Assembly Delegation Offices and People's Councils. The judging panel, consisting of prestigious, experienced journalists who work actively, diligently, impartially and objectively, selected 67 outstanding entries to award the first Dien Hong Award. A reporter from Binh Thuan Newspaper won an encouragement prize with a 3-part series: "The bridge between the Party's will and the people's heart" by author Thu Ha.

*Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Binh Thuan Province Nguyen Huu Thong (far left) and other National Assembly Deputies of the province took a souvenir photo with the author.*

Speaking at the award ceremony, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue emphasized that under the leadership of the Party, the 15th National Assembly has continued to make efforts to innovate and improve the quality of its operations towards increasing democracy, professionalism and the rule of law. The National Assembly has achieved many important and comprehensive results in terms of legislation, supreme supervision and decision-making on important national issues. To recognize and honor the important contributions of the country's press and the tireless efforts of professional and non-professional writers to the National Assembly and People's Councils, the 15th National Assembly Standing Committee has decided to organize an annual national press award on the National Assembly and People's Councils called the Dien Hong Award...

According to the National Assembly Chairman, the entries were carefully invested, rich in topics, sharp in content, massive in scale, diverse in style and modern in journalistic means. Among them, many journalistic works with exploration, breakthrough, novelty, creativity, appeal, were welcomed and highly appreciated by readers. The entries and awarded today are the crystallization of enthusiasm, sense of responsibility, love for the profession, faith, sincere feelings of writers and photographers towards the representative agencies of the people...

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