Just type words related to workers and laborers in the Coal industry on the electronic Lao Dong Newspaper, which has published thousands of articles and articles continuously over the years.
That is not to mention how much information appeared in print newspapers of Lao Dong Newspaper, which at one time, when online newspapers had not yet exploded, many cadres, workers and laborers in the Coal industry still waited to read Lao Dong Newspaper every day.
Because those are hot news and articles, leading, even exclusive with multi-dimensional perspectives and new discoveries.
Up to today, Lao Dong Newspaper has maintained that "form".
On the occasion of "Workers' Month" 2025, Lao Dong Newspaper reporters went down with the miners of Nui Beo Coal Joint Stock Company, working at a depth of -350m. A miner said that he used to read paper newspapers of Lao Dong Newspaper, but later, when Lao Dong electronic newspaper was available, he switched to reading on the phone.
It is a newspaper with a long tradition and is always closely associated with workers - he shared.
We don't remember how many times we have gone down to deep underground coal mines as well as majestic open-pit coal mines, but each time we were excited and always took advantage of the opportunity to go, even traveling to coal mines that had been gone down.
Every ton of coal is soaked with sweat and many times is the blood of cadres, workers and laborers in the Coal industry, with reporters from Lao Dong Newspaper being present many times directly, both to reflect the incident and to represent the agency to ask about and give donations from the Golden Heart Social Charity Fund.
Looking at the deep, long, well-drained mines but the coal mounds are hundreds of meters deep with "huge" vehicles, but from afar, looking at them, it is like bags of cows crawling every meter to see the intelligence and efforts of many generations of miners.
These are the best catalysts to make each article more pensive than the breath of life.
In recent years, articles from Lao Dong Newspaper have not only encouraged and shared with the Coal industry, but also contributed a voice to work with ministries, branches, and authorities to resolve the issue for the Coal industry, especially in approving projects to sell soil, wastewater or grant new mining licenses.
According to Mr. Le Thanh Xuan - Member of the Presidium of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, Chairman of the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries Trade Union, since the establishment of Vietnam National Coal Corporation and later the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group, Lao Dong Newspaper has always been closely associated with workers and laborers, especially those who work directly in the mines.
Lao Dong Newspaper understands and grasps very closely the working conditions, material and spiritual life and welfare of miners. Thanks to that, there are articles reflecting promptly and honestly, thereby both encouraging, sharing and proposing many solutions to join hands to take better care of workers" - Mr. Xuan shared.
The person who laid the first bricks to build and connect Lao Dong Newspaper with workers and laborers, especially the team of miners in Quang Ninh, was journalist Ngo Mai Phong - former Head of the Representative Office of Lao Dong Newspaper in the Northeast region.
He has been present at many open-pit coal mining mines or in deep, barren underground mines; at major events of the Vietnam National Coal - Mineral Industries Group (TKV), or haunting and heartbreaking work accidents.
He is always close to workers and laborers and especially loves miners, and then has articles that move people's hearts about working hours on earth, about daily life, about joy and sadness.
He wrote that he was a miners, so his name became familiar to them and many miners were his friends.
praising the Coal industry for its efforts to overcome all difficulties to bring "black gold" to the Fatherland, but journalist Ngo Mai Phong also exposed the negative aspects in the Coal industry, to contribute to building the Coal industry to become better and better.
The most famous of these is a series of articles on illegal coal mining and trading, causing loss of national resources, and after that, he was awarded the highest prize of the National Press Award twice in a row, in the investigative reporting category.
He once shared that there may be many people who hate him for his anti-nedical articles, but no one dares to underestimate him when each article shows "goodness, inner heart".
