21. Vietnam Government 2001 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Reso vietnam government 2001 Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, http://workmall.com/wfb2001/vietnam/vietnam_government.html

2000 INDEX 1999 INDEX 1998 INDEX 1996 INDEX ... People Government Gov. Leaders Economy Communications Transportation ... [TOP] Vietnam Government 2001 http://www.photius.com/wfb2001/vietnam/vietnam_government.html SOURCE: 2001 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK Country name: conventional long form: Socialist Republic of Vietnam conventional short form: Vietnam local long form: Cong Hoa Xa Hoi Chu Nghia Viet Nam local short form: Viet Nam abbreviation: SRV Government type: Communist state Capital: Hanoi Administrative divisions: 58 provinces (tinh, singular and plural), 3 municipalities* (thu do, singular and plural); An Giang, Bac Giang, Bac Kan, Bac Lieu, Bac Ninh, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Ben Tre, Binh Dinh, Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, Binh Thuan, Ca Mau, Can Tho, Cao Bang, Dac Lak, Da Nang, Dong Nai, Dong Thap, Gia Lai, Ha Giang, Hai Duong, Hai Phong*, Ha Nam, Ha Noi*, Ha Tay, Ha Tinh, Hoa Binh, Ho Chi Minh*, Hung Yen, Khanh Hoa, Kien Giang, Kon Tum, Lai Chau, Lam Dong, Lang Son, Lao Cai, Long An, Nam Dinh, Nghe An, Ninh Binh, Ninh Thuan, Phu Tho, Phu Yen, Quang Binh, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Quang Ninh, Quang Tri, Soc Trang, Son La, Tay Ninh, Thai Binh, Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa, Thua Thien-Hue, Tien Giang, Tra Vinh, Tuyen Quang, Vinh Long, Vinh Phuc, Yen Bai Independence: 2 September 1945 (from France) National holiday: Independence Day, 2 September (1945)

22. South Vietnam Government Loses Support (from Vietnam War South vietnam government Loses Support (from Vietnam War) Rebel gains coincided with the waning popularity of South Vietnam s president, Ngo Dinh Diem. http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-209855

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Vietnam Asia GOVERNMENT A new state constitution was approved in April 1992, reaffirming the central role of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in politics and society, and outlining government reorganization and increased economic freedom. Though Vietnam remains a one-party state, adherence to ideological orthodoxy has become less important than economic development as a national priority. The most important powers within the Vietnamese Governmentin addition to the Communist Partyare the executive agencies created by the 1992 constitution: the offices of the president and the prime minister. The Vietnamese President, presently Tran Duc Luong, functions as head of state but also serves as the nominal commander of the armed forces and chairman of the Council on National Defense and Security. The Prime Minister of Vietnam, presently Phan Van Khai, heads a cabinet currently composed of three deputy prime ministers and the heads of 26 ministries and commissions, all confirmed by the National Assembly. A Party Congress, comprised of 1,168 delegates at the Ninth Party Congress in April 2001, meets every 5 years to set the direction of the party and the government. The 150-member Central Committee, which was elected by the Party Congress, usually meets at least twice a year.

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2002 INDEX Country Ranks DEFINITIONS Introduction ... History Government Gov. Leaders Flags Economy Communications ... [TOP] Vietnam Government - 2002 http://www.greekorthodoxchurch.org/wfb2002/vietnam/vietnam_government.html SOURCE: 2002 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK Country name conventional long form: Socialist Republic of Vietnam conventional short form: Vietnam local short form: Viet Nam abbreviation: SRV local long form: Cong Hoa Xa Hoi Chu Nghia Viet Nam Government type Communist state Capital Hanoi Administrative divisions 58 provinces (tinh, singular and plural), and 3 municipalities* (thu do, singular and plural); An Giang, Bac Giang, Bac Kan, Bac Lieu, Bac Ninh, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Ben Tre, Binh Dinh, Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, Binh Thuan, Ca Mau, Can Tho, Cao Bang, Dac Lak, Da Nang, Dong Nai, Dong Thap, Gia Lai, Ha Giang, Hai Duong, Hai Phong*, Ha Nam, Ha Noi*, Ha Tay, Ha Tinh, Hoa Binh, Ho Chi Minh*, Hung Yen, Khanh Hoa, Kien Giang, Kon Tum, Lai Chau, Lam Dong, Lang Son, Lao Cai, Long An, Nam Dinh, Nghe An, Ninh Binh, Ninh Thuan, Phu Tho, Phu Yen, Quang Binh, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Quang Ninh, Quang Tri, Soc Trang, Son La, Tay Ninh, Thai Binh, Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa, Thua Thien-Hue, Tien Giang, Tra Vinh, Tuyen Quang, Vinh Long, Vinh Phuc, Yen Bai Independence 2 September 1945 (from France) National holiday Independence Day, 2 September (1945)

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Government THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM (SRV) is governed through a highly centralized system dominated by the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCPViet Nam Cong San Dang). As the force controlling the system, the party exercises leadership in all matters. The government manages state affairs through a structure that parallels the party's apparatus, but it is incapable of acting without party direction. All key government positions are filled by party members. Society is ruled by the party's ubiquitous presence, which is manifested in a network of party cadres at almost every level of social activity. All citizens are expected to be members of one or another of the mass organizations led by party cadres, and all managers and military officials are ultimately answerable to party representatives. The Vietnamese Communist Party Party Organization Political Dynamics Political Culture ... Celebrity

26. Vietnam Government Government of Vietnam. Country name conventional long form Socialist Republic of Vietnam conventional short form Vietnam local long form Cong Hoa Chu http://www.abacci.com/atlas/politics.asp?countryID=358

27. The History Guy: The Wars Of Vietnam: From The Beginning Of The 20th Century To Cao Dai Suppression 1955The South vietnam government of Ngo Dinh Diem Vietnam set up a new government in Phnom Penh with Khmer Rouge defectors but http://www.historyguy.com/wars_of_vietnam.htm

The History Guy The Wars of Vietnam From the Beginning of the 20th Century to the Present Home Military History Historical Personalities Email ... Site Map Web www.historyguy.com This page lists the wars and conflicts of the nation of Vietnam. Included are the rebellions and uprisings against the colonial French rulers, the conflicts involving both North and South Vietnam as well as the conflicts fought by a united Vietnam after 1975. De Tham Guerrilla Resistance De Tham, a Vietnamese resistance leader, led a thirty-year guerrilla campaign against the colonial French occupiers in the mountains near Yen The in northeastern Tonkin. In 1909 the French launched a major offensive against his forces. De Tham was involved in the 1908 Hanoi Uprising. This guerrilla resistance ended with De Tham's assassination in 1913. Hanoi Uprising June 1908 "Abortive" uprising led to French execution of thirteen rebels and hundreds of arrests. Vietnamese Troop Mutiny 16 year-old Vietnamese King Duy Tan took part in revolt and was exiled to the French island of Reunion. In their policy of colonial control, the French allowed the Vietnamese monarchy to exist as a puppet government. As with most colonial empires, the French recruited local forces to aid them. In this case, the Vietnamese troops mutinied against their rulers.

28. AP Wire | 07/12/2005 | Vietnam Government Foe Fights Extradition In Embassy Bomb Chanh Nguyen, founder of the Government of Free Vietnam, was among those demonstrating outside the 9th Circuit s Southern California chambers in Pasadena. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/12109625.htm

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29. 2005 Vietnam Government Brieifings Announcement for its 2005 annual briefings to all families of missing from the Vietnam War. DPMO set the date for the government briefings to coincide with the http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/vietnamgovbriefannounce.htm

ANNUAL MIA FAMILY BRIEFINGS SET FOR WASHINGTON AREA DPMO set the date for the government briefings to coincide with the annual meetings of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia and the National Alliance of Families, also to be held in Crystal City, Va. As in previous years, the government briefings will provide families the opportunity to meet with numerous civilian and military representatives of the government whose expertise includes: foreign government negotiation, policy, remains recovery and identification, DNA science, archival research and intelligence analysis. Since 1995, DPMO has briefed more than 10,000 family members in U.S. cities through monthly and annual meetings such as these. Events Leadership News Family Information ... DPMO PRIVACY STATEMENT Neither the Department of Defense nor this web site endorses information, products, or services contained on any external links, including, but not limited to the Adobe web site. This web site is a member of the Department of Defense computer network and does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at any location other than this site ( http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/

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31. Human Trafficking: Vietnam Government Action Plan TOPIC provides information to combat human trafficking through prevention, prosecution, and victim protection. http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/eap/vietnam/govt/action_plan.html

a web resource for combating human trafficking skip navigation Vietnam Government Action Plan Vietnam Action Plan As a growing number of Vietnamese children and women are trafficked to neighboring countries, Vietnamese and Chinese government officials met in Hanoi in May 2000 to discuss a joint strategy to overcome cross-border trafficking. Due to the illicit nature of the business, little is known about trafficked children and those who enslave them. A study conducted by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs in 1999 (MOLISA) indicated that trafficked children typically belong to the poor provinces of Vietnam. Their parents are normally offered a few hundred dollars with a guarantee that their child will get a well-paid job. Instead, the children are promptly deprived of their identity papers and forced into slavery. The meeting of Vietnamese and Chinese officials in Hanoi was followed up by a field assessment and a joint survey later that year. On the basis of the gathered information a network for exchange of information was created and mechanisms to rescue the victims of cross border trafficking were introduced. Under the current plan, border guards and women's union representatives in the affected provinces will undergo training to help them meet the needs of the trafficked persons. Returning persons will be given empathetic care in shelters. Vietnam has signed and ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, committing itself to combat illicit transfer and trafficking of children, as expressed in article 11 and 35.

32. Human Trafficking: Vietnam Government TOPIC provides information to combat human trafficking through prevention, prosecution, and victim protection. http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/eap/vietnam/govt/

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33. Vietnam: Government Repression Of Indigenous Peoples vietnam government repression of Indigenous Peoples. The Vietnamese government responded brutally to peaceful demonstrations by Indigenous Peoples in the http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/82/Vietnam.html

Vietnam: Government repression of Indigenous Peoples The Vietnamese government responded brutally to peaceful demonstrations by Indigenous Peoples in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in April. Police used tear gas, electric truncheons and water cannons to prevent demonstrators from entering Buon Ma Thuot, the capital city of Dak Lak province. The police were helped by men armed with metal bars, shovels, and machetes. At least 10 people were killed and hundreds of people were wounded. Many people did not return to their villages after the protests and are still missing. In the last decade hundreds of thousands of ethnic Vietnamese have moved to the Central Highlands, either on their own initiative or through state-sponsored transmigration programmes. The Montagnards have seen vast areas of their farmland, swiddens and forests converted to rubber, coffee and fast-growing tree plantations or flooded to make way for hydropower and irrigation dams. In February 2001, Montagnards staged peaceful demonstrations in provincial capitals in the highlands. Vietnamese authorities brought in thousands of police and soldiers who violently broke up the protests.

34. Vietnam: Government Promotes "bioinvasion" Nevertheless, the Vietnamese government is ignoring this problem. An area of 5 million hectares is planned to be planted with trees nationwide by 2010. http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/24/Vietnam.html

Vietnam: Government promotes "bioinvasion" The spread of exotic species in natural ecosystems worldwide, known as "bioinvasion", is deserving increasing attention and causing concern. Several plants, including tree species, have been identified as behaving like weeds. For example an African species of acacia (A. nilotica) is being promoted in regions of Africa where it is exotic as well as in India, while in Indonesia and Australia they are trying to eradicate it as a result of its invasive behaviour. At least 19 pine species have invaded various Southern countries’ ecosystems. Eucalyptus also appear on weed lists in many countries and its invasions are displacing what remains of the native vegetation in areas of the Mediterranean region. The invasion by alien species is one of the main causes of forest degradation in many parts of the world. Nevertheless, the Vietnamese government is ignoring this problem. An area of 5 million hectares is planned to be planted with trees nationwide by 2010. The new "reforestation" project, approved at the 10th National Assembly in 1997, involves 53 provinces and cities with almost 20 million people, and will cost an estimated of more than U$S 4.5 billion. No native species will be used in this project aimed to increase present national forest cover from the current 30.2% (according to other sources, 28%) to 43%. "Forest cover" is an ambiguous concept, used in official statistics, that hides how much correspond to natural forests and how much to tree plantations, called "planted forests".

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fiSearchFormMaxSetId='AX006201'; Country Info Vietnam Introduction Vietnam General Data Vietnam Maps Vietnam Culture ... Vietnam Time and Date Vietnam Government Back to Top Prior to the French conquest, the political institutions of Vietnam were patterned after the Chinese model. Confucianism was the state ideology, and the emperor governed with the assistance of mandarins—scholars trained in Confucian principles. That system was essentially discarded during the time of French colonial rule, although the Vietnamese emperor was still permitted a figurehead authority from his imperial palace in Hue. After the division of the nation in 1954, the North accomplished a Soviet-style Communist regime, while the government in the South created a parliamentary system patterned after those in the West. Neither became a practicing democracy. The Communist system of the North was extended to the entire nation after reunification in 1976. Modern Vietnam has a unitary system of government with a strong central government, and exclusive power resides with the Vietnamese Communist Party, the sole legal party in the state. Albania Maps Andorra Maps Armenia Maps Austria Maps ... mailto:info@mapzones.com?subject=Mail from HomePage

37. MSN Encarta - Sidebar - South Vietnam Government Falls In Coup South vietnam government Falls in Coupappears in the following articles from. Related Items. • Vietnam War. • Vietnam. • Diem, Ngo Dinh http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_761593228/South_Vietnam_Government_Falls_in_Coup.

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Articles new articles section catalog keyword catalog title catalog ... author catalog John Mark Ministries Priscillas Friends WWW Pray For The World Vietnam Government To Allow Protestant Ministerial Training FLASH NEWS from COMPASS DIRECT Global News from the Frontlines ********** VIETNAM GOVERNMENT TO ALLOW PROTESTANT MINISTERIAL TRAINING Protestant Leaders See Permission as a Small Step Towards Religious Freedom Special to Compass Direct HO CHI MINH CITY, January 16 (Compass) Twenty-seven years after forcibly shutting down the Nha Trang Theological Seminary, Vietnamese authorities on January 3 granted permission to the Evangelical Church of Vietnam-South, or ECVN (S), to open a class for training church leaders. Although a few see it as a hopeful sign, most of Vietnam's Protestant leaders see it as a very small step on the road to religious freedom. The ECVN (S), representing over half of Vietnam's 1.2 million Protestants, received official recognition in April 2001, after some 27 years of existing in legal limbo. Hundreds of thousands of minority Christians historically related to the ECVN (S) are still considered "illegal" by the communist government. Over 400 churches in Dak Lak province were forcibly disbanded in the fall of 2002. The ECVN (S) had made the opening of a Bible college its foremost request since legal recognition was granted in 2001. For years the church had sought the return of its substantial seminary campus at Hon Chong in Nha Trang, confiscated in 1976.

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Open Site The Open Encyclopedia Project home submit content become an editor the entire directory only in Vietnam/Government_and_Politics Top Regional Asia Vietnam : Government and Politics Overview A new state constitution was approved in April 1992, reaffirming the central role of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in politics and society, and outlining government reorganization and increased economic freedom. Though Vietnam remains a one-party state, adherence to ideological orthodoxy has become less important than economic development as a national priority. The most important powers within the Vietnamese Governmentin addition to the Communist Partyare the executive agencies created by the 1992 constitution: the offices of the president and the prime minister. The Vietnamese President, presently Tran Duc Luong, functions as head of state but also serves as the nominal commander of the armed forces and chairman of the Council on National Defense and Security. The Prime Minister of Vietnam, presently Phan Van Khai, heads a cabinet currently composed of three deputy prime ministers and the heads of 26 ministries and commissions, all confirmed by the National Assembly. The present 15-member Politburo, elected in April 2001 and headed by Communist Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh, determines government policy, and its Secretariat oversees day-to-day policy implementation. Although there has been some effort to discourage membership in overlapping party and state positions, this practice continues. Five of the Politburo membersPresident Tran Duc Luong, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Minister of Public Security Le Hong Anh, and Defense Minister Pham Van Traconcurrently hold high positions in the government, while anotherNguyen Van Anserves as Chairman of the National Assembly. In addition, the Party's Central Military Commission, which is composed of select Politburo members and additional military leaders, determines military policy.

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