Ten outstanding Vietnamese youths in 2019 announced

Ten winners of the Vietnam Outstanding Young Faces Award 2019 were announced on March 3.
Ten outstanding Vietnamese youths in 2019 announced ảnh 1Truong The Dieu (R) wins silver medal at the world championships of vocational skills (WorldSkills 2019) in Kazan, Russia. (Photo: vov.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Ten winners of the Vietnam OutstandingYoung Faces Award 2019 were announced on March 3.

All of them showed outstanding achievements in nationalconstruction and defence, specifically in the fields of science and creativity,production, business and startups, security and safety, sports, culture andart, and social activities in the year.

They include Truong The Dieu, who brought home a silver medalin Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) Milling at the 45th World SkillsCompetition (WorldSkills 2019); and Nguyen Khanh Linh, a student of physics atthe Lam Son Specialised High school for Gifted Students in Thanh Hoa.

The Nghe An-born Dieu had spent three years of practicebefore he obtained the highest achievement for Vietnam after the country’sseven participations at the tournament.

Meanwhile, Linh won a bronze medal at the Asian PhysicsOlympiad and a gold at the 2019 International Physics Olympiad, becoming thefemale contestant with the highest scores at the competition.

Runner Nguyen Thi Oanh makes her name into the list withvarious remarkable achievements in 2019. She triumphed at the women’s 10,000m,5,000m and 3,000m steeplechase at the 30th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games30), and seized two golds in the 5,000m and 3,000m steeplechase at the 2019 TaiwanOpen Athletics Championships.

Major Tran Van Phuong, vice captain of Submarine 186stationed in Da Nang city of Brigade 189 of the Vietnam People’s Navy; Dr DinhNgoc Thanh, a 33-year-old professor in training at the Information Technologyand Communication Department of Soongsil University of the Republic of Korea;and Vo Minh Lam, an artist of the Tran Huu Trang cai luong (reformed opera)theatre in Ho Chi Minh City, are also honoured.

Other recipients of the title are police Captain Ngo Tuan Anhin Nghia Dan district of Nghe An; Le Anh Tien, CEO of Chatbot Vietnam; Le AnhTuan, who launched about 300 free rides to take patients to the hospitals inover two years; and Hoang Hoa Trung, leader of a charitable group.

The award ceremony is slated for March 26, the foundinganniversary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

The annual Vietnam Outstanding Young Faces Award is presentedto 10 youngsters under 35 with excellent performances in their areas ofspecialty over the years, and especially in the year for which they have beennominated./.
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