At the 5th National Press Awards on Anti-Corruption, Anti-Wastefulness and Anti-Negativity (2024-2025), four works were awarded the prestigious Prize A. According to the Organizing Committee, these works demonstrated the highest level of journalistic quality, depth of investigation, and substantial social impact. One of the four works honored with an A Prize this year was Economic Spotlight: “The Paradox of Investment in Waste-Treatment Technology”, produced by the News Department of Vietnam Television.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presents the award to journalist Xuan Dung, representative of the Vietnam Television News Department reporting team.
The program provided an in-depth analysis of loopholes and paradoxes in current regulations that have led to enormous wastefulness in waste-treatment projects. The report also offered solutions to promote efficient resource reuse, reduce environmental waste, and highlight circular-economy models that help minimize losses, save raw materials, and create new business opportunities by transforming waste into economically valuable products.
The reporting team from the News Department, producers of the program Economic Spotlight: “The Paradox of Investment in Waste-Treatment Technology”.
The three remaining works that received the Prize A are:
1. The three-part series Veterans Persistently Fighting the “Enemy Within” by author Do Phu Tho, published in the Vietnam Veterans Newspaper.
Returning from the battlefield and training grounds to everyday life, most veterans have continued to uphold the virtues and traditions of Uncle Ho’s soldiers, serving as exemplary figures in patriotic emulation movements. Notably, veterans have become a core force in combating corruption, wastefulness, and wrongdoing, leading many decisive and challenging battles in the fight against the “enemy within”.
2. The series Combating Wastefulness in Science and Technology, published on the Audit Online Newspaper.
Despite limited resources, the State continues to allocate budgets to science and technology, which are considered to be key drivers of modern production. However, shortcomings in financial management, fragmented resource allocation, cumbersome procedures, the absence of a risk-acceptance mechanism in scientific research, and even the abuse of “science” for personal gain have caused many large-budget research projects to be shelved.
The series clearly highlights these weaknesses in the use and management of scientific funding, and proposes solutions to overcome them. The issues raised remain highly relevant and contribute to the real-world implementation of the Party and State’s policies on science and technology.
3. The talk show What Should Be Done with Surplus Office Buildings? Aired on VOV Traffic, Voice of Vietnam.
The program featured leading experts in land management, economics, and urban planning. Following directives from the Central Government and the advocacy news outlets such as the Voice of Vietnam, positive changes have begun to emerge in the management of public assets, such as auditing, transferring, and repurposing surplus state-owned facilities.
