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A-class prizes presented to winners
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Present at the event were State
President Tran Dai Quang, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, Head
of the Party Central Committee's Information and Education Commission Vo Van
Thuong, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City’s
Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan, and other representatives from Central and Hanoi bodies.
The contest, launched from January 1
to November 30, 2017 by the Vietnam Journalists’ Association (VJA), and the
Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front
(VFF), received over 1,100 journalism entries from various news and media
outlets across the country.
The contest aims to emphasize the
important role of the press in the anti-corruption and wastefulness movement.
Accordingly, the jury board decided
to present two A, seven B, 10 C, and 12 consolation prizes to the winners.
Among them, reporter Nguyen Van Hai from the People’s Army Newspaper won a C
prize.
Also at the event, President of the
Vietnam Fatherland Front Tran Thanh Man officially launched the second National
Press Awards on the Fight and Prevention of Corruption and Wastefulness 2018.
More information about the contest is available on the VJA’s website at
http://www.vja.org.vn or the VFF’s website at http://www.mattran.org.vn.
Addressing the ceremony, State
President Tran Dai Quang congratulated the winners and affirmed that the Party
and State have been attaching importance to the fight against corruption and
wastefulness. So far, the whole country has seriously implemented resolutions
on enhancing the Party’s leadership in preventing and fighting corruption and
wastefulness, on promoting the quality in Party building and revamping in the
current context, and on boosting the learning and following of the moral
example of President Ho Chi Minh.
The State President highly valued outcomes of the fight against corruption and wastefulness, contributing to
reinforcing the political system and consolidating the whole people’s trust in
the leadership of the Party and State.
In addition, the press awards are
part of the efforts to advocate and realize the Party resolutions on fighting
corruption and wastefulness, and morality degradation among Party members, he
added.
State President Tran Dai Quang also
took this occasion to request all ministries, branches, localities, and people
nationwide to uphold their responsibilities for the fight against corruption
and wastefulness; and to call upon the close coordination among the VFF, VJA,
press agencies, and relevant forces to combat corruption and negative
phenomena.
Translated by Van Hieu