First Dien Hong Awards honours 67 works

Sixty-seven outstanding works wining the first Dien Hong Awards – the national press award on the National Assembly (NA) and People’s Councils – have been honoured at a ceremony held in Hanoi on June 9.
First Dien Hong Awards honours 67 works ảnh 1Representatives of the Vietnam News Agency (second from right) and Radio Station of the University of Chile receive their respective prizes for an excellent multimedia product and for an excellent foreign information imprint. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Sixty-seven outstanding works wining thefirst Dien Hong Awards – the national press award on the National Assembly (NA)and People’s Councils – have been honoured at a ceremony held inHanoi on June 9.

They included five Prize A, 13 Prize B, 16 Prize C, and 31 consolationprizes.

Addressing the event, NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue expressedhis delight to see the submission of 3,328 works to the first edition by 171press agencies in Vietnam and abroad and seven loffices of the NA delegationand people's councils.

The carefully prepared entries are rich in topics, sharp in content, diverse instyle and modern in means of journalism, Hue said, adding thattheir discovery, novelty, and creativity have been well received andappreciated by readers.

In addition to the above-said prizes within the structure ofthe award, there were two special prizes for an excellent multimedia productand excellent foreign information imprint. Their respective winners were theVietnam News Agency with its special information page on the election ofdeputies to the 15th NA and People's Councils at all levels for the 2021-2016 term;and the Radio Station of the University of Chile with a work spotlighting theVietnam-Chile friendship week programme./. 
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