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Attending the ceremony, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh highlighted the development of Vietnam’s revolutionary press over the past 97 years, stressing that it has contributed greatly to the struggle for national liberation and the national construction and defense cause. The PM congratulated 115 authors and groups of authors who have won prizes in the 16th National Press Awards, stressing that the awards honored and expressed thanks to journalists who had made important contribution to the country’s success in 2021, a year with unprecedented difficulties and challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The press has built trust and helped consolidate the great solidarity, consensus and support  of the people and businesses for the Party’s and State’s sound policies on a vaccine strategy and COVID-19 prevention and control program, enabling Vietnam to become one of the few countries leading the world in the vaccination rate,” he said. The Governmental leader also applauded the press … [Read more...] about Winners of 2021 National Press Awards honored

Photo taken yesterday shows ambulances on the road in Paktika province, Afghanistan. The death toll from an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan early yesterday has reached 920, while more than 600 people were injured, a disaster official said, adding the number of casualties might rise further. — XINHUA/VNA Photo KABUL — A powerful earthquake struck a remote border region of Afghanistan overnight killing at least 1,000 people and injuring hundreds more, officials said yesterday, with the toll expected to rise as desperate rescuers dig through collapsed dwellings. The 5.9 magnitude quake struck hardest in the rugged east, where people already lead hardscrabble lives in a country in the grip of a humanitarian disaster made worse by the Taliban takeover in August. "People are digging grave after grave," said Mohammad Amin Huzaifa, head of the Information and Culture Department in hard-hit Paktika, adding that at least 1,000 people had died in that province alone. … [Read more...] about At least 1,000 killed in Afghan quake as rescuers scramble for survivors

Role of press highlighted in promoting development Nguyen Thu Lan, a consultant from a Hanoi-based US-invested investment consultancy firm, two weeks ago completed a digital transformation report for the firm’s three potential American clients, who are exploring Vietnam’s investment climate. Lan had to seek information from many sources for the report, including local newspapers. She also found detailed information on Vietnam’s macroeconomic situation and digital transformation in VIR, which features a new hallmark scheme from the government on supporting industrial enterprises in smart production development. Lan said, “I am very happy as I had been seeking such information for months. More importantly, such information was cited from an original source,” she said. Under the draft scheme, expected to be enacted by the government soon, just over one-third of Vietnamese businesses will implement digital transformation effectively by 2025, and the rate will increase to 85 per … [Read more...] about Role of press highlighted in promoting development

Cision, a comprehensive communications platform helping public relations and marketing professionals around the world understand, influence, and amplify their stories, has released its annual State of the Media report with responses from more than 3,800 journalists from 17 global markets to understand key challenges faced in a marketplace that is rapidly evolving, and how public relations can support first-rate and trustworthy reporting. Challenges faced in cultivating effective PR relationship According to the report, journalists’ biggest challenge is maintaining credibility as a trusted news source (32 per cent) and combating accusations of fake news. A close second, journalists cite the impact that smaller groups of staff and fewer resources are having on their workloads. In fact, three in 10 journalists file 10 or more stories per week. When it comes to the relationship between communications industry professionals and journalists, it is all about easing … [Read more...] about Challenges faced in cultivating effective PR relationship

Colin Blackwell, Founder and CEO Enablecode We live in an age of exponential change. It is said that the amount of change we will observe in our own lifetimes will be at least as much as all the changes of all human history that preceded it. We could well think that it would have been fun to be there when Gutenberg printed his first-ever document in 1450, but we are in luck as we will all witness even greater changes. In my younger days in England, I would subscribe to the old broadsheets – impractically large sheets of paper that always managed to get awkwardly crumpled and annoy the person next to you on the train. Whatever was included was all that you could access at that moment. What a contrast to today. We are nowadays so used to reading whatever most interests us personally in a convenient way online, that we forget how that was all made possible. As media readers, we are almost spoilt for choice, with everything so easy and accessible online. But that all took a huge … [Read more...] about Pushing journalism to the forefront of digitalisation

Illustrative image Asso. Prof. Dr. DANG NGOC DUC, former Director of the Institute of Banking and Finance at the National Economics University shared his thoughts on this issue with Saigon Investment recently. JOURNALIST: - Sir, many commercial banks are running out of credit room while needing to increase credit balance to support the economic recovery. Many experts believe that controlling credit growth by granting an annual credit limit to commercial banks is an administrative measure that is no longer appropriate. What is your opinion on this issue? Asso. Prof. Dr. DANG NGOC DUC: - The credit limit has been used by the State Bank of Vietnam as a tool to control credit growth since 2011. The Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam said that this is a very effective measure to keep the credit market stable and has prevented interest rate to increase the scale of deposits and loans. The use of credit limit tools for commercial banks is based on three basic objectives. First, … [Read more...] about Current credit room no longer suitable