VNA daily’s Devotion Awards to honour outstanding figures in sports this year
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA)’s daily The Thao & Van Hoa (Sport and Culture) has freshly announced nominations for its Devotion Awards 2023, which features new categories for sports in addition to traditional ones for music.
HCM City (VNA) - The Vietnam News Agency (VNA)’s dailyThe Thao & Van Hoa (Sport and Culture) has freshly announced nominationsfor its Devotion Awards 2023, which features new categories for sports inaddition to traditional ones for music.
The sport awards consist of three categories.
One of the 10 nominations honours individuals withoutstanding achievements, good impressions and dedication in sports activities throughoutthe year, and another acknowledging young athletes with outstanding achievementsand good impressions sees five athletes nominated. Fans will vote to select winnersof the two categories via the Bvote system, starting January 4.
The last category ‘Sports Achievement of the Year’ aims torecognise breakthrough by individuals or teams in professional fields,demonstrating the development of Vietnamese sports. Winners will be selectedand awarded by a council under the organising committee.
The music awards maintain its traditional voting by culturaljournalists for the four categories of the programme, album, producer, andmusician of the year.
Its five remaining categories of the song, music video, newartist, female and male singers of the year have their winners selected byvotes from both journalists and music lovers nationwide.
The awards ceremony is scheduled to take place in March./.
A ballot was held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on April 9 by about 100 reporters to choose the 14th Devotion Music Awards, run by The Thao & Van Hoa (Sport & Culture) daily.
The Cong Hien (Devotion) Music Awards 2019 has recognized the efforts to renew and experiment new things of artists in various aspects, from composing to performing and programme producing.
Pop singer Hoang Thuy Linh has become the first Vietnamese artist to ever win the "big four" categories at the 2020 Cong Hien (Devotion) Music Awards, the organizers announced on March 25.
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At the event to launch the awards (Photo: VNA) 
