Chen Jianwen, Editor-in-Chief of China's People's Daily, congratulating Mohammad Jubair Hasan, Senior reporter of The Financial Express (FE), as he handed over the 2nd Silk Road Global News Award 2025 trophy to Mr Hasan at a ceremony in Kunming of China's Yunnan province recently. Senior reporter of The Financial Express (FE) Mohammad Jubair Hasan has clinched the 2nd Silk Road Global News Award 2025, initiated by China under its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project.
At a recent event in Kunming of southwest China's Yunnan province, he received the prestigious global recognition in the Best Reporting Award category of one of the world's mega accolades in international journalism.
Mr Hasan is the first Bangladeshi journalist who received the award for his article titled "Should Bangladesh build 'Padma River Economic Belt'? YREB of China could be a role model"
The editor-in-chief of the People's Daily, Chen Jianwen, handed over the trophy to Mr Hasan at a grand ceremony. The event was hosted by the Belt and Road News Network (BRNN) in collaboration with the People's Daily, China's leading newspaper.
Since its call for submissions from April 2024, the 2nd Silk Road Global News Award received nearly 5,000 entries from 110 countries and regions.
The awards recognised a total of 58 works from 37 countries under four categories - Best Reporting, Best Photography, Best Video, and Best Innovation.
All awards were initially evaluated by the academic committee, finalised by the judging committee, and then approved by the BRNN council members.
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