Vietnam: VOVNews gives prizes to winners of Radio Blog contest

Radio the Voice of Vietnam's Online Newspaper (VOVNews) has awarded prizes to winners of a Radio Blog contest in Hanoi.

 

The contest was officially launched on March 2, 2009, to mark the 10^th anniversary of VOVNews.

The Radio Blog contest reflects characteristics of the Voice of Vietnam by incorporating sound, personal expression and inspiration for young people.  

Addressing the awards ceremony on March 11, Deputy Director General of VOV Hoang Minh Nguyet thanked the participants for showing the power of music and sound to share their feelings with friends, relatives and society.

 

VOVNews created a website in form of a forum to serve the participants. Over the past 11 months, the forum has drawn 573 regular members with a total of 1,041,575 page views and 200 recordings submitted to the website. 30 percent of them were recorded and set to music by their authors. The rest were created by the editors of the Radio Blog programme from the authors' written texts.

 

 

Under the contest rules, each contestant was allowed to submit no more than 3 recordings but many candidates enthusiastically sent 5 or 6, showing the keen interest of some young people in the Radio Blog contest. According to the organising board, many recordings have high-quality, moving content, attract lots of page views, and are often excerpted and quoted. VOVNews and Radio the Voice of Vietnam have received great publicity from the contest.

Radio Blog has helped young people explore their interests and learn more about radio broadcasting on the internet.

The results  One First prize: Asking to sit in an air-conditioned room (by Tran Hoai) (listen) Two Second prizes: Writing for elder brother (by Pham Thu Van) (listen) Father stays in my heart forever (by Luu Hong Anh) (listen) Three Third prizes: Waterways in the western region (by Nguyen Ngoc Anh) (listen) Gold shines like wild sunflowers (by Luu Ngoc Anh) (listen) My beloved mother (by Nguyen Thi Huyen Thanh) (listen) Five Consolation prizes: I'm sorry, mum (by Pho Minh) (listen) Night dewdrop (by Trinh Thuy Tien) (listen) Feelings at autumn (by Tu Bich Diep) (listen) Lesson on luck (by Pham Phuong Thao) (listen) Experiencing pains (by Tran Thi Dung) (listen)

 

Source: http://bit.ly/9Lv83P

Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia