ASEAN photo exhibition opens
VGP - A photo exhibition featuring the beauty of ASEAN’s land and people opened in Ha N oi on August 5 to mark the ASEAN’s 50 th founding anniversary.
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The event, jointly organised by the ministries of Foreign Affairs and Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the municipal People’s Committee.
The event will feature 230 photos from the ten ASEAN member states, including Brunei, Campuchia, Indonesia, Lao, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, ThaiLan và Viet Nam.
The photos, by 136 artists from the ten ASEAN nations, include 50 on Viet Nam and 20 on each of nine other nations. They are selected from over 10,000 entries sent by over 1,200 photographers.
At the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Vuong Duy Bien said the exhibition is part of activities to celebrate ASEAN’s 50th founding anniversary.
It is expected to strengthen understanding and solidarity among the nations, contributing to building an ASEAN community of solidarity, dynamism, development, peace and prosperity, he added.
The exhibition runs until August 11.
By Vien Nhu
