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Vietnamese reporter wins prize at int’l photo competition

Viet Van, a reporter of Lao Dong (Labour) Newspaper has won the Honorable Mention at the 11th annual London International Creative Competition for his photo collection entitled “Di tim cau tra loi” (Finding answer).

Van’s photos capture a classroom of Buddhist novices in Myanmar. This is the fifth time that the reporter has been shortlisted at the London International Creative Competition.

The competition introduces innovative artworks from passionate visual artists from around the world, which are juried by a board of internationally luminaries of the visual arts.

Viet Van has won more than 60 international prizes throughout his career, including eight first prizes in France, the UK, the US and Australia.
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Image of President Ho Chi Minh appears on ballots at Uruguay Communist Party congress

Image of President Ho Chi Minh appears on ballots at Uruguay Communist Party congress

Among the ballots used at the congress were three featuring posters of President Ho Chi Minh and one bearing an image depicting the Vietnamese people engaged in production during the period of resistance against foreign aggression. The latter also carried the inscriptions “80th Anniversary of Vietnam’s National Day” and “33rd National Congress of the PCU".

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