(Cinet)- Award ceremony of photo festival and Reportage -Documentary film on environmental protection and climate change in the ASEAN community took place in Hanoi, on February 20.
The festival with the theme “environmental protection and climate change in the ASEAN community “, which has launched on July 17, 2013. After more than5months oflaunch, the Organisation Board received 536 photo and photo collection entries and 125 film entries from ASEAN countries.
A collection of photos themed “the role of forest and climate change” by Vietnamese photographer Huynh Lam swept the first prize in the photo category.
Meanwhile, “Jungle Beat” produced by the Malaysian National Film Development Corporation won the first prize in the reportage – documentary film category.
Twenty-eight other outstanding works were also honoured.
Minister of Information and Technology Nguyen Bac Son said that the event contributed to an ASEAN vision 2020 that looks to build a green and clean ASEAN.
It also contributed to forging cooperation and mutual understanding among the association’s members in the process of building a strong ASEAN Community and realising the ASEAN’s Charter, he said.
According to Nguyen Truong Son, head of the Organisation Board, the entries had high quality, vividly introducing dynamic ASEAN countries together with their outstanding achievements in environmental protection and climate change prevention and external cooperation in the fields, and new environmentally-friendly technologies.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
