The Vietnam Post on March 25 launched a stamp designing contest to welcome the ASEAN community that is expected to take shape by 2015.

The activity aims to realise the commitment by member countries to issuing a set of joint stamps themed “One Vision, One Identity, One Community” next year.

Artists in and out of the corporation can send their designs to the contest until August 8. Each of them must create at least a stamp pattern and one commemorative seal design.

The organising board will select a maximum of three stamp and three commemorative seal patterns to compete at a contest in Thailand .

ASEAN groups Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
 
ASEAN leaders have chosen December 31, 2015 as the day to officially launch the ASEAN Community.

The Community is to be based on three key pillars: a Political-Security Community (APSC), an Economic Community (AEC) and a Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC).-VNA