National External Information Service Awards 2017 launched
The National External Information Service Awards 2017 was launched by the Party Central Committee’s Communication and Education Commission, the Steering Committee for External Information Service and Nhan dan newspaper.
Hanoi (VNA) – The National External Information Service Awards2017 was launched by the Party Central Committee’s Communication and EducationCommission, the Steering Committee for External Information Service and Nhandan newspaper on November 30.
The competition is open to Vietnamese people, both at home and abroad, as wellas foreigners. It features seven categories, including print media, radiobroadcast, television broadcast, electronic media, press photo, landscape photoand book.
The entries, either in Vietnamese or foreign languages, must have beenpublished or broadcast via mass media in Vietnam or in a foreign countrybetween January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017.
They should be sent to the Office of the Party Committee and Unions of Nhan danNewspaper or via email giaithuongdoingoai2017@gmail.com prior to March 31,2018.
The award ceremony is scheduled to take place in Hanoi in May 2018.
The award is expected to nudge the image of Vietnam as a peaceful and proactivecountry to international friends.
Nhan dan newspaper is the standing agency of this year’s National InformationService Awards.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, Deputy Head of the Party CentralCommittee’s Information and Education Commission Pham Van Linh stressed thatVietnam has gained considerable achievements in its reform process, which alsoposes challenges due to global impacts.
Thus, Vietnamese media, news agencies, reporters and editors should improvequality and efficiency of the external information service while renovatingcontents and popularisation modes, he said.
Launched in 2014, the award has drawn the attention of both domestic andforeign press organisations, publishers and reporters. The number of entries tocompetition has increased through years from 893 entries in 17 languages in2016 compared to 515 works in 10 languages in 2014.-VNA
Algerian reporters Aoura Racha and Ryad Abada on November 10 received a third prize of Vietnam’s National External Information Service Awards 2015 for their article on Ho Chi Minh City.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Brazil held a ceremony on July 6 to present the third prize of the National External Information Service Awards 2016 to William Gsiant, a presenter of TV Supren in Brasilia.
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At the launching ceremony (Photo: VNA) 
