Vietnam stamp design to be issued in ASEAN nations

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A stamp and postmark designed by Vietnamese artists will be produced as a joint issue stamp within the ASEAN region on August 8 th, 2015, said Nguyen Quang Vinh, Deputy Head of the Postal Stamp Board under the Vietnam Post Corporation on March 25th. The publication aims to celebrate the 48th founding anniversary of ASEAN and the formation of the ASEAN Community on December 31st, 2015. Artists, Vu Kim Lien and Nguyen Du from the Vietnam Post Corporation were recently declared the winners of the official stamp and postmark contest organised by the Thailand Post, with joint efforts from the Posts of other nine ASEAN countries. The contest received 30 stamp designs and 25 postmark designs from all the ten ASEAN nations. Vu Kim Lien said that the stamp was designed according to the theme “Welcoming ASEAN community – One vision, one identity, one community.” Ms. Lien said that the ten flags of the ASEAN country members make up the main pattern of the stamp, stitched together to become a flower. She added that yellow cornflowers are stylised behind the main pattern to represent the substantial potential of ASEAN members to develop their agricultural economies./.