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Monday, July 12, 2021

Indian company uses Cambodian Angkor Wat image on rice products

 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Ministry of Commerce of Cambodia found that foreign rice products under the name Angkor Wat Thai Hom Mali Jasmine Rice were circulating through the system Online using images of Angkor Wat without permission from the Cambodian authorities, according to the press release on This July 12.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the careful research efforts of the two ministries under the close cooperation of the Thai side found that the owner This rice producer is an Indian company called Voyage India, located in Maharashtra, India.

Based on the results of this research collaboration, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has ordered the Cambodian Embassy in India to take immediate action to protest to India for Voyage. India immediately stops using the name and image of Angkor Wat on its packaging because it violates the law on trademarks and acts. Of dishonest competition and violation of the Paris Convention on the Protection of Industrial Property.

Following the request, the Indian company stopped using the name and image of Angkor Wat on its packaging in protest of the ministry. Foreigners as well as the Cambodian Embassy in India. This is still a doubt for the Angkor Wat Thai Hom Mali Jasmine Rice brand, why name the product as Thai? Cambodians react to Thailand stealing the model and building the same temple structure as the Khmer temple (Angkor Wat).

The Cambodian people understand that this is a Thai ploy to make the Cambodian people forget the Thai story of building the second Angkor Wat in Thai hands only.

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