PM Pham Minh Chinh presents the special prize to leaders of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Vietnam News Agency. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) won a total of 20 prizes, including one special prize shared with two other agencies, four first, one second, seven third and seven consolation prizes, at the 7th National External Information Service Awards presentation ceremony in Hanoi on November 28 night.
With these prizes, VNA became one of the units that have secured the largest number of prizes in the National External Information Service Awards for consecutive years.
Co-organised by the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education and the Central Steering Committee for External Information Service, the event honoured 102 best entries, including one special, 10 first, 19 second, 29 third and 43 consolation prizes.
A representative of the group of authors from VNA's Department of Domestic News receives a first prize. (Photo: VNA) It also marked the 10th year of implementing the Politburo’s Conclusion No.16-KL/TW on the external information development strategy for the 2011-2020 period. Over the past decade, external information has made positive contributions to the country’s information and education work as well as the Party and State’s achievements in external affairs.
This year, the organising board received over 1,000 entries in 14 languages which were published as articles in print and online newspapers, websites licensed by competent agencies, radio and TV broadcast, press and landscape photos, and books.
Notably, foreign authors and press agencies, overseas Vietnamese and Vietnamese embassies abroad also sent works to the arwards.
Speaking at the event, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh described external information as an important part of the Party’s external affairs, State and people-to-people diplomacy, and ideological affairs. Its core role is to bring Vietnam to the world and the world closer to Vietnam, he said.
The PM requested renewing the external information work by adopting advanced technologies to improve quality, thus ensuring correctness, timeliness, attractiveness, relevance and efficiency in multiple languages.
He presented certificates to a group of authors winning the special prize, including the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the VNA and those participating in the external information work, for their work on introducing and popularising Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong article entitled “Several theoretical and practical issues on socialism and the path towards socialism in Vietnam” to political parties and international friends./.
