A press conference announces the launch of the National External Information Service Awards 2019 (Photo: VGP)

Organizers are the Steering Committee on External Information Work, the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education, and the Vietnam Television (VTV). The awards aim at honoring prominent journalistic works in external information service and promoting and spreading Vietnam’s achievements and its international integration as an active and responsible member of the international community.

Submissions can be in any language and must be published in the forms of an article of printed newspaper, online newspaper and website (licensed by competent agencies), radio broadcast, television broadcast, press photo, landscape photo or book. They must have been broadcast via licensed mass media in Vietnam or in a foreign country from January 1 to December 31. The awards will be announced and presented in June next year.