Hunt on for ‘Phnom Penh Noodle’ owner

via Phnom Penh Post, 25 August 2021: Cambodia raises complaint over a noodle packaging using Angkor Wat as promotional material. The company is likely from Vietnam.

The Cambodian embassy’s trade consul in the US is searching for the owner of products that used the iconic image of Angkor Wat temple on packages of noodles branded “Nam Vang Noodle” and sold in the US.

The search came after the embassy received a report from the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts concerning the products that had used the image without permission.

The noodles with the picture of Angkor Wat and the name Nam Vang – Vietnamese for Phnom Penh – were spotted for sale in a market in the US recently.

Ministry of Commerce spokesman Pen Sovicheat told The Post on August 24 that the search had forced the owner to remove and stop using the image of Angkor Wat on the packaging without authorisation from the government.

Source: Hunt on for ‘Phnom Penh Noodle’ owner | Phnom Penh Post