(VOVworld)- Radio the Voice of Vietnam has won 9 prizes at the National Press Award. They include 2 A, 2 B, 2C and 3 consolation prizes.
Award ceremony of the National Press Award 2012 |
This year, Radio the Voice of Vietnam had 25 entries to the National Press Award. According to Ha Minh Hue, Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association, winning programs for VOV fully and objectively reflect different aspects of the country. Many of these works are innovative and many lively programs express international and national issues. Mr. Hue says:“This is a successful award season. Winning press works, especially those which won high prizes, do not pursue sensational topics but deeply analyze the nature of the issue with vigor stimulating the public. They include the series on the earthquake in Tranh River hydro-power plant and the Dien Bien Phu victory in the air by Radio the Voice of Vietnam”.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung presented A prize to VOV reporters for the program “Miracle turning point” |
The program “Miracle turning point”, part of the special series “Heroic Epic- Hanoi- Dien Bien Phu victory in the air, December 1972” by Le Tuyet, My Ha, Viet Nga and Dam Hoa won the A Prize for the category of general radio programs. For 1 hour, this program led the listeners to the major parts of the historic negotiations and signing of the Paris Peace Accord 1973, which forced the US to withdraw its troops from southern Vietnam, creating a prerequisite for the Great Victory of national reunification in 1975. If the “Miracle Turning Point” won a high prize because it is a lively history story, the series “Earthquake in Tranh River Hydro Power plant: aftershocks in people” by Pham Tan Tu, Phan Thanh Ha and Dang Van Nam won A prize for being close to life. Reporter Phan Thanh Ha says:“We cannot help ethnic minority people with money but, being reporters, we think it’s our responsibility to tell the truth so that local authorities, the State and the government will provide more funds and investment to these people. We consider it a way for us to pay gratitude to ethnic minority people in the former revolutionary base in Bac Tra My district”.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung presented A prize to VOV reporters for the series “Earthquake in Tranh River Hydro Power plant: aftershocks in people |
In 2012, the territorial sovereignty issue in the East Sea and the Asia-Pacific region attracted special attention from the world. On VOV, stories about the so-called “the nine-dotted line” and China’s claim for this line was specifically and deeply analyzed and commented in the series “East Sea: unreasonable claim for the nine-dotted line” by Tran Cong Truc, Minh Hien, Le Phuc, Thu Lan and Le Binh won the B prize. Reporter Le Binh says:“The most difficult part for us in writing this series was to find documents by Chinese scholars. Our basis was the Convention on the Law of the Sea and analyses by Chinese and international professors, scholars and people to prove that the claim of nine-dotted line is groundless and unreasonable. We want to convey our message through the voices of these scholars to affirm Vietnam’s sovereignty and jurisdiction rights over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes”.
Meanwhile, stories about efforts by ethnic minority people to escape poverty and become integrated were reported by Dang Thi Hue, Ha Thi Thu Thao and Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam in a series: “Story about integration of ethnic minority people”. Dang Thi Hue says: “When writing about ethnic minority people, reporters often refer to them as the ones who need assistance. But, we reporters from the Ethnic Minority Channel chose another angle to reflect their lives. We see that they are very dynamic in economic integration and always strive to become better off. We used the modern broadcasting method and reality radio approach- talking with our subjects on the spots- to implement this series.”
Each radio program is a lively, real and significant story about some aspect of life. This is the way that VOV reporters work.
Thu Trang- VOV1