The first prize came to Hoang Tuyet and Manh Linh from VNA’s
Tin Tuc Newspaper with a photo reportage entitled “More than 3,000 women join
Ao Dai show on Nguyen Hue pedestrians’ street”.
Meanwhile, the other two prizes came to reporters from VNA’s
VNews television channel and VNA’s representative office in HCM City.
This year, the awards received 141 entries from 24 media
agencies across the country. Many reflected the reality of the tourism sector
in 2020 and created positive effects.
Meanwhile, many other introduced the cuisine and tourism of
Vietnam and the city, gave recommendations on how to build a safe and friendly
EU calls for comments on GI scheme review
27-01-2021
24-09-2018
The European Commission has launched a public consultation calling for views on how to strengthen the geographical indications system.
The goal of the consultation, announced on Monday, January 25, is to gather views on the major challenges that need to be addressed ahead of a planned revision of the system as well as their underlying causes.
The Commission will also use the consultation to research policy options that could address these challenges and the potential effects of these different options.
The European Union protects almost 3,400 names of specific products, including agricultural products and foodstuffs; fishery and aquaculture products; wines, spirit drinks and aromatised wine products.
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Regional produce given trademarks of local geography
Tue, 26 January 2021
The Ministry of Commerce is pressing on to register some of the Kingdom’s more renown products as collective trademarks and grant them domestic geographical indication (GI) to provide them with added exposure on the international market.
Minister Pan Sorasak said this at a January 25 meeting with officials from the Oddar Meanchey provincial Department of Commerce and local bureaus of the Cambodia Import-Export Inspection and Fraud Repression Directorate-General (Camcontrol).
He said the ministry is working on the GI registration of Kampot salt and “fleur de sel” (flower of salt), Pursat oranges and Mondulkiri wild honey.
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A Khmer language course for Cambodians of the Vietnamese origin opened in the Cambodian province of Preah Sihanouk on January 25.
At the classroom
Speaking at the event, Vietnamese Consul General Vu Ngoc Ly said the course aims to offer necessary support to overseas Vietnamese to gain Cambodian citizenship, thus making positive contributions to Cambodia as well as bilateral ties.
The course will last three months, from Monday to Friday every week.
Together with a similar course that opened on December 30 in Kampot province, the class is a pilot model in areas that the Vietnamese Consulate General takes charge of, including Preah Sihanouk, Kampot, Kep, Koh Kong, Kampong Speu and Takeo. If successful, the model will be spread in the Vietnamese community in the southwest of Cambodia and across the country.