To commemorate the 119th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh: organizing a summation meeting, awarding prizes to the winners in the first phase of the writing contest about "Study and follow President Ho Chi Minh’s ethical...

Secretary of the provincial Party Committee – Tran Dinh Thanh – gives an award to the contestant who wins the first prize

    This is the writing contest that Dong Nai newspaper has collaborated with the provincial Veterans’ Association, Department of Education and Training and Youth Union in organizing with the intention of contributing to boosting the propagation and implementation of the campaign – "Study and follow President Ho Chi Minh’s ethical example". Simultaneously, the contest is to seek for, exhort, motivate and praise the shining examples of the collectives and individuals who study and follow Uncle Ho’s ethical example with specific and practical thoughts and actions.

    From when the contest started to when it ended, there have been 5,632 articles submitted by the contestants from all parts of the province. These articles are a rich source of contents and ways of expressions, reflecting the writers’ true feelings and thoughts. The organization board made a selection and awarded 10 individual prizes including 1 first, 2 second, 3 third, 4 consolation and 8 team prizes to the excellent writers. Phuong Lien (from Tan Phu district’s radio station) won the first prize with "Twenty years to work as a hamlet chief". The second prizes went to Bui Thi Trang (a former student of Nguyen Trai high school in Bien Hoa city) with "No passion, no success" and to Pham Van Hong (from Division 309, Bien Hoa city) with "How to make economical habit everybody’s self-conscious action”. Besides, the organization board also awarded prizes to the old and youngest contestants.

    In the summation meeting, Mr. Huynh Van Toi declared that the second phase of the writing contest about “President Ho Chi Minh’s ethical example” starts and will end on February 3, 2011. The contest rules say that the articles need to describe Uncle Ho’s example which the writer eyewitnessed or read about in materials, books and newspapers and to show the writer’s feelings or others’ feelings of Uncle Ho’s example. In addition, the articles need to examine the examples of “Good person and good deed” within and outside the province, who study and follow Uncle Ho’s example. They should be done in the form of reflections, snapshots, reportage and memoirs of “Good person, good deed”. The organization board has called for the journalists, writers and collectors who are highly experienced and passionately devoted to take part in the contest.

(Reported by Lien Huong, Translated by Duy Minh)