A press photography contest entitled 'The Nation – Current Beat of Life', was launched on September 15 in Hanoi for professional and amateur reporters and photographers across the country.

The contest is co-organised by The Newspaper Maker’s Magazine and Photography Magazine, under the Vietnam Association of Reporters and the Vietnam Association of Photographers.
Works submitted can reflect the country’s political, economic, cultural, social, and public security situation in the process of national construction and the protection of its sovereignty.
Each photographer can send a maximum of ten previously unpublished colour or black-and-white photos, 13 x 18 cm, taken between September 1, 2011 and September 30, 2012 to The Newspaper Maker’s Magazine at 5/43/17 Kim Dong Street, Hoang Mai District, Hanoi and 226/23 Le Van Sy Street, Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City.
The deadline for entries is September 30 2012.