VNA Deputy General Director Le Quoc Minh (R) and Chief Representative of the BRAP – OIF Chékou Oussouman (L) present first prize to Mai Khanh Ly (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Winners of the “Young Francophone Reporters” competition 2020, the fifth of its kind, were honoured at an award ceremony held in Hanoi on November 13.

The contest was launched by Le Courrier du Vietnam (CVN), a weekly Frenchlanguage newspaper of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), under the auspices of the Asia-PacificRegional Office (RBAP) of the International Organisation of the Francophonie(OIF); the embassies of France, Belgium, Morocco, Switzerland and Canada; the Francophone University Agency (AUF); and others.

The first prize, including a laptopand one-year free readership of Le Courrier du Vietnam, went to Mai Khanh Lywith two works "Comment les vendeurs ambulants vivent-ils pendant la crisedu COVID-19? (How do street vendors earn a living during COVID-19?) and "Qu’ontfait les jeunes Vietnamiens pendant le confinement?" (What do youngVietnamese do during the social distancing period?”

The second prize, including a tablet and six-month frꦡee readership of Le Courrier du Vietnam, was granted to Nguyen Thi Ba Ninhwith the🦋 work "COVID-19: La menace des déchets plastiques pourl’environnement!" (COVID-19: Threat of plastic waste to the environment!). 

Le Thi Doan Trangearned the third prize worth a smart phone and six-month free readership for the work "Les diplômés de la saisonCOVID-19: une génération chancelante" (Worry of graduates during COVID-19 era).

Tw𒁃o consolation and other auxiliarꦅyprizes were also presented. 

Speaking at the event, VNA Deputy GeneralDirector Le Quoc Minh said the competition contributes to encouraging youths to speaktheir feelings about Vietnam and its people during the fight against the globalpandemic.

On the occasion, he affirmed the VNA’ssupport for the Francophone development in Vietnam, thus creating favourableconditions for Le Courrier du Vietnam to fulfill its important task.

Chékou Oussouman, Chief Representative of the BRAP – OIF and co-head of the organising board, said theevent attracted 121 entries by 150 contestants from many countries whoreflected their perspectives on the pandemic such as online learning, fakenews, effective COVID-19 prevention and control measures.

Entries to the final round will be published on the special issue of thenewspaper, which will be presented to embassies and Francophone organisations,universities at home and abroad, and all contestants.

Editor-in-Chief of Le Courrier du V✃ietnam Nguyen Thu Ha, co-head of the organising board, said the competition has helped spread French teaching and leཧarning movement inVietnam and creating a creative playing ground for Francophone youths./.