Elite showpiece at Party daily’s anniversary
High-profile politicians came while
others sent flowers to congratulate the Nhan Dan (People) newspaper’s 60th anniversary in Hanoi on March 10, showing their devotion to the
Party’s mouthpiece.
Nguyen Phu Trong, Party
General Secretary and National Assembly Chairman, and his predecessors
in the Party, Do Muoi and Nong Duc Manh, sent baskets of flowers to the
celebration.
The event was attended by State
President Nguyen Minh Triet and Truong Tan Sang, Politburo member and
permanent member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat, and many
other senior Party and State officials.
Lao Deputy
Minister of Information and Culture Bosengkham Vongdala came and
presented the newspaper with the Issara Order, First Class, a highest
distinction by the Lao State, for its excellent contribution to
the special Vietnam-Laos relationship.
Truong Tan
Sang urged the Nhan Dan newspaper to take the lead in disseminating
Party guidelines and State policy, especially the 11th Party Congress
Resolution, among Party members and people from all walks of life.
He called for more investigative reports, analyses and inclusive
commentaries on major political and economic events, to meet social
demand.
“The newspaper should publish more and
more articles of high combat spirit, sharpness and conviction on the
struggle against false allegations by hostile forces and political
opportunists,” emphasised the senior Party official.
The fight against bureaucracy, corruption and waste, and other social
evils was another major topic that Sang asked the Party mouthpiece to
focus on.
State President Nguyen Minh Triet pinned
a Ho Chi Minh Order to the newspaper’s traditional flag, making it the
second of its kind to the newspaper, along with other awards over the
past six decades. Other honours included the Golden Star Order, Labour
Hero title and Hero of People’s Armed Forces title.
The Nhan Dan newspaper was founded at the second Party Congress in Kim
Binh, Chiem Hoa district, in the northern mountainous province of
Tuyen Quang, to replace the Su That (Truth) newspaper. Its first issue
was published on March 11, 1951.
It had received
special care from Vietnam’s first President Ho Chi Minh, who wrote 1,205
articles for the newspaper in 23 pen-names for 18 years from the first
issue./.