Hanoi (VNA) – A press festival to welcome the Year of the Rooster openedat the Viet Xo (Vietnam – Russia) Friendship Cultural Palace in Hanoi onJanuary 17.
Organisedby the Hanoi Journalists Association, the event features 23 stalls ofpublications that together offer a socio-economic overview of the capital citylast year.
Thefestival, which also serves as a gathering for journalists, lasts until January18.
On theoccasion, the municipal journalists association held a ceremony to present theNgo Tat To press award to outstanding news stories last year. Reporters fromthe Hanoi Moi newspaper and Hanoi radio-television secured first prizes at the printand television categories.
The sameday, similar festivals took place in the northern provinces of Bac Giang andDien Bien.-VNA
Spring Press Festival wraps up
The Spring Press Festival 2015 reflected the Vietnamese revolutionary
press’s fresh development and its closeness with the Party and people,
Dinh The Huynh, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Popularisation and
Education Commission affirmed at the festival’s closing ceremony in
Hanoi on February 10.