People from Vinh Long Province - Vo V N KI T, Tran Van Huong, PH M Hung (Paperback)

Chapters: Vo V n Ki t, Tran Van Huong, Ph m Hung. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vo Vn Kit (23 November 1922 - 11 June 2008) was a Vietnamese politician and statesman. He was a veteran fighter in the long war against French and then American military forces in South Vietnam, and lost his first wife and two children to US bombing. He was Prime Minister of Vietnam from 8 August 1991 to 25 September 1997, who led the communist nation's return to the world arena after decades of war and isolation. He was one of the Vietnamese political leaders that led the innovation (i mi) policy in Vietnam. His birth name was Phan Vn Hoa and he changed it to Vo Vn Kit when he joined the Indochinese Communist Party. He also had a pseudonym, Sau Dan. Kit was born in 1922 into a peasant family in Trung Hip village, Vng Liem district, Vnh Long province in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam, then a part of Cochinchina in what was called French Indochina. He was admitted to the Indochinese Communist Party in 1939. He joined the Anti-imperialist Youth Movement and took part in the Nam K (Cochinchina) insurrection in Vng Liem district. As a member of the communist-led Viet Minh independence movement, Kit fought the French in the First Indochina War (1946-1954) in Southern Vietnam and went North following the division of the country according to the Geneva Accords of 1954. In 1960, he was elected alternate member of the Communist Party Central Committee and became a full member in 1972. In 1976, following the reunification of the country, he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and he returned to Southern Vietnam to assume the position of Chairman of the Peoples Committee of H Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon). Soon after, he was elected alternate mem...http: //booksllc.net/?id=75509