NDO – As many as 106 excellent works by journalists nationwide won the 13th National Press Awards 2018 which was announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on June 21 on the occasion of the Vietnam’s Revolutionary Press Day.
The event was attended by Prime Minister
Nguyen Xuan Phuc; former Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh; former
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung; Politburo member and
Permanent member of the Secretariat, Tran Quoc Vuong; and Politburo
members, Secretaries of the Party Central Committee (PCC): Head of the
PCC's Commission for Organisation Pham Minh Chinh; Head of the PCC's
Commission for Communication and Education Vo Van Thuong; Chairman of
the Party Central Committee's Commission for Economic Affairs Nguyen Van
Binh; as well as Secretaries of the Party Central Committee: Chief
Justice of the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam Nguyen Hoa Binh; Head
of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs Phan Dinh
Trac; Chairman of the PCC's Theoretical Council and Director of the Ho
Chi Minh National Academy of Politics; member of PCC and National
Assembly Vice Chairman Do Ba Ty; and many others.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc
Speaking at the ceremony, on behalf of Party and State leaders, Prime
Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc sent his best congratulations and
appreciation to the great contributions of the national press team. In
particular, warmly congratulating journalists who have won the 13th
National Press Award in 2018. The Prime Minister affirmed that, over 13
years, the National Press Award was held more and more professional and
quality journalism. This is a prestigious journalism award, honoring the
outstanding authors and works that are warmly welcomed by the press
around the entire country, and are highly concerned by the Party, the
State and the people.
According to Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy head of
PCC’s Communication and Education Commission, Chairman of the Vietnam
Journalists' Association Thuan Huu said that in 2018, the press closely
followed the political tasks of the country, sectors and localities;
faithfully reflecting the country’s political, economic, cultural,
social, defence, security and foreign affair aspects, as well as the
implementation of the Party and State resolutions and directives in
2018; criticising and combating negative acts, corruption, and wrong
views of hostile forces; and informing on the important international
events in an accurate and timely fashion.
This year’s award attracted over 1,800 works, and is the second
consecutive year that the organising committee has received entries from
all 63 provincial journalists’ associations.
Accordingly, among the 147 submissions from the final phase, six
journalism pieces have claimed the A prize, 24 works received the B
prize, 42 works got the C prize, and 34 works were given the consolation
prize.
Journalists from Nhan Dan (People) newspaper received one A prize, two B prizes and three C prizes.