Anti-corruption press works honoured

Outstanding press works in anti-corruption and their authors have been honoured at an award presentation ceremony of the third National Press Awards on the prevention and control of corruption and negative phenomena in Hanoi on November 13.

The winners of A prizes

Prominent among guests at the event were Politburo member and standing member of the Party Central Committee's Secretariat Vo Van Thuong; head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs Phan Dinh Trac; Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court Nguyen Hoa Binh; President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Do Van Chien who is also deputy head of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption; and head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education Nguyen Trong Nghia.

The organisation of the awards aims to promote social supervision and criticism of the VFF and socio-political organisations as well as the role of the people and the mass media in fighting corruption and wastefulness.

This year, the organising board received 1,181 works in various media forms from 100 central and local media agencies.

The jury presented one special prize, along with four A, 10 B, 12 C and 18 consolidate prizes to 45 works.

The special prize came to a three-episode documentary entitled “internal enemies” by a group of reporters from Vietnam Television’s Channel 1 (VTV1).

Addressing the event, President of the VFF Central Committee Do Van Chien highlighted the contributions of the press and revolutionary journalists to corruption prevention and control work./.

VNA