The press conference launching the ninth National External Information Service Awards on March 29 ( (Source: CPV)

The awards aim to honour outstanding authors, works, and publications in the field of external information service and help popularise the country’s development achievements in various areas.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) is the standing body of the ninth National External Information Service Awards.

Addressing a press conference in Hanoi, Le Hai Binh, alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission of Popularization and Education, and Standing Vice Chairman of the Steering Committee for External Information Service, said that first launched in 2014, the Awards have gradually gained a foothold among the national award system.

Le Hai Binh, alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission of Popularization and Education, and Standing Vice Chairman of the Steering Committee for External Information Service, speaks at the press conference. (Source: CPV)

VNA also quoted that Mr. Binh stressed that the ninth National External Information Service Awards are launched in the context that the year 2023 is highly important to the implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.

The Awards should fully reflect the positive and effective contributions of the external information service to the building and consolidation of the people and international friends’ trust in Vietnam, and to the mobilisation of every external resource to be combined with the internal strength to serve the realisation of national development targets in 2023, he noted.

The ninth Awards are expected to be a highlight of communications in general and the external information service in particular, bringing images of the country, people, culture, and dynamic development of Vietnam to international friends.

The Awards are open to works in Vietnamese and foreign languages in the categories of: print newspaper in Vietnamese; electronic newspaper, website in Vietnamese; print newspaper in foreign languages; electronic newspaper, website in foreign languages; radio broadcasting; television broadcasting; photo (comprising press photo and landscape photo); books; video clips; and initiatives, products with external information values that are posted on mass media outlets or published, distributed, announced, or used in Vietnam or other countries from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.

The address for entry submission is the VNA's Profession Training Centre at Room 301, No 11 Tran Hung Dao street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi; telephone: 024. 39330540; email: giaithongtindoingoailan9@gmail.com.

The deadline for entry submission is July 31, 2023./.