This was announced on February 22 by the Japan-Vietnam Culture Exchange Centre in Vietnam.

Trang was awarded 100,000 Japanese yen (more than VND20 million) as the Grand Prize. Her compatriots, Tong Thi Ngoc, Bui Thi Mai Anh and Nguyen Thi Thu Loan from the Hanoi University of Industrial Fine Arts received the consolation prize. Another Vietnamese, Pham Son Tung from Da Nang Architecture University, won an honorary prize.

A ceremony will be held in Hanoi on March 3 to present the awards to the five Vietnamese prizewinners.

The contest was launched in September 2010, and the Japan-Vietnam Culture Exchange Centre in Vietnam selected 15 entries from Vietnam to compete against more than 200 designs by students from Germany, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, the US, Brazil, Russia and Singapore.

The competition, organised by the Japanese International Exchange Foundation, aimed to boost cultural exchange between Japan and other countries around the world, and introduce Japan’s traditional culture to international friends.