Hanoi, April 16 -- Hanoi (VNA) - The 20th Cong hien (Devotion) Awards, organised by the The Thao & Van Hoa newspaper under the Vietnam News Agency, took place on April 15 evening in Hanoi, marking two decades of honouring excellence in music and sports.

Broadcast live on HanoiTV2, the event was attended by Deputy Head of the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information, Education and Mass Mobilisation Tran Thanh Lam, and VNA General Director Vu Viet Trang, who is also Deputy Head of the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information, Education and Mass Mobilisation.

In his opening remarks, Nguyen Thien Thuat, Editor-in-Chief of the The Thao & Van Hoa newspaper and Head of the organising board of the awards, highlighted the...