On the evening of June 21, the 20th National Press Award ceremony - 2025 took place in Hai Phong City, on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21, 1925 - June 21, 2026).
This year, the National Press Award Council selected 123 excellent works to award prizes, including 11 A prizes, 26 B prizes, 50 C prizes and 36 consolation prizes of 13 types of prizes.
Participating in the 20th National Press Award - 2025, Lao Dong Newspaper has 1 work winning the B prize, 3 works winning the C prize and 1 work entering the Final round - continuing to affirm the professional quality and positive contributions of the Lao Dong journalist team to the revolutionary press of Vietnam.
The work "Digital transformation in innovation of Party leadership methods" (3 articles) by the group of authors Nguyen Cam Van, Tran Van Vuong, Le Trung Kien, Nguyen Van Phuong, Nguyen Van Thang won the B prize.
The series of articles emphasizes the innovation of the Party's leadership methods to meet the requirements of the digital transformation and deep international integration.
The series of articles is typical of the Party's efforts to concretize the Party's guiding ideology on innovating leadership methods, improving governance capacity and combat strength in the context of national digital transformation.
The series of articles clarifies a major fundamental issue of Party building work: innovating leadership methods is not about changing the nature, but about perfecting a leadership model suitable for the digital age, based on the people, for the people and serving the people.
The 3-article series "Exposing tax evasion tricks, need to soon close loopholes to avoid revenue loss" by the group of authors Dang Thi Chung, Luc Thi Giang won the C prize.
A series of 3 articles recorded the reality that the rate of enterprises reporting losses is high and has lasted for many years, in which more than half of FDI enterprises operating in Vietnam declared losses.
After being published, Lao Dong Newspaper received feedback from the Ministry of Finance; the Tax Department, the Foreign Investment Department (Ministry of Finance); local tax management agencies, to review the current tax management mechanism for businesses, not only in the legal framework but also in the enforcement capacity and monitoring tools, thereby proposing solutions to reduce budget revenue loss.
Series of 5 articles "Overall offensive against smuggling and counterfeit goods nationwide, strictly handling acts of corruption and negativity - no forbidden zones, no exceptions" by the author group Ngo Van Cuong, Bui Thi Dieu Thom, Trinh Tung Giang, Nguyen Tuan Anh, Pham Vu Linh won the C prize.
The series of articles was carried out by Lao Dong Newspaper reporters for many months, infiltrating ringleaders trading in counterfeit goods, imitation goods, exposing tricks to "transform" goods of unknown origin, poor quality, smuggled goods, counterfeit goods, imitation goods and goods infringing intellectual property rights, bringing them to the market for consumption, earning billions of dong in profit, deceiving, threatening the health and trust of consumers.
Through a series of 5 articles, Lao Dong Newspaper interviewed and recorded opinions from experts, National Assembly deputies, scientists... who contributed ideas and proposed fundamental solutions to help state management agencies have more basis and grounds to improve legal regulations on handling and preventing counterfeit goods, fake goods, smuggled goods, and intellectual property rights violations, to improve and restore the business environment to genuine businesses.
Series of 5 articles "Preventing tricks to profit from social housing: Maintaining strict social security policy discipline" by the group of authors Nguyen Van Tung, Ngo Van Cuong, Bui Thi Dieu Thom, Dinh Xuan Hiep, Phung Ngoc Minh won the C prize.
The series of articles was painstakingly implemented by a group of reporters from all regions over many months, with elaborate investment, thereby outlining a panoramic and multi-dimensional picture of the reality of social housing profiteering.
Notably, the series of articles was deployed at the right time when the Prime Minister had drastic directions to strengthen transparency, prevent negativity, and strictly handle the situation of hoarding goods, inflating prices, speculation, and profiteering in the process of approving, buying, selling, and renting out social housing.
The Government's direction is considered an ultimatum, urging ministries and sectors such as the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Construction... to simultaneously get involved and strictly handle violations.
