Biographical information for current/recent leadership
"ddeltest@bucknell.edu" <ddeltest@bucknell.edu>
date Feb 23, 2007 7:48 PM
subject [Vsg] biographical information for current/recent leadership
Colleagues, I am wondering if someone might help me find biographical
information on current officials and representatives in Viet Nam. In
particular, I am seeking information on the dpeuty speakers of the
national assembly. I am having trouble getting through to the
National Assembly's web site. Any tipsm much appreciated.
Best wishes, David Del Testa
"trang_cao@berkeley.edu" <trang_cao@berkeley.edu>
date Feb 23, 2007 8:48 PM
subject Re: [Vsg] biographical information for current/recent leadership
Dear David,
I have the email of Ton-Nu-Thi Ninh, whom I met this past Wednesday. She
is a member of the national assembly and well as being vice-chairwoman of
the foreign affairs committee, and a few other positions. She is
currently doing the rounds on a US tour promoting her explicit desire of
opening up chanels of US-Vietnam relations. You might try emailing her.
ninhtnt@cpt.gov.vn
Good luck. I hope this helps you.
Trang.
Stephen Denney <sdenney@ocf.berkeley.edu>
date Feb 23, 2007 9:59 PM
subject Re: [Vsg] biographical information for current/recent leadership
The Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University has biographical files on the
communist leadership in Vietnam, which Douglas Pike had assembled from his
time in Saigon through 1997. Actually these are photocopies of files which
remained here at Berkeley's Indochina Center, but the files at Berkeley
are presently closed to the public. These files may be too dated for your
purpose, but would probably be of interest to others on the list.
Our library here at UC Berkeley also has some more current directories of
political leaders in Vietnam, with brief capsule biographies.
- Steve Denney
"Maxner, Steve" <steve.maxner@ttu.edu>
date Feb 24, 2007 7:24 AM
subject RE: [Vsg] biographical information for current/recent leadership
Thanks to Steve Denney for sharing information about the Pike Biography
files in the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech. Currently, there are more
than 13,000 documents from this part of the Pike Collection online.
They are accessible through the Virtual Vietnam Archive:
www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive
You can enter the name of the person as a keyword and then enter the
words "Pike" and "biography" in the Title Collection query field (minus
quotes). Of course, you can just search for the person's name as a
keyword and it will search all of the more than 2.6 million
pages/375,000 records currently in our digital access system.
Please let me know if you have any questions about accessing these
materials or if you have difficulty finding information on a particular
person.
Best regards,
Steve
Thomas Jandl <thjandl@yahoo.com>
date Feb 24, 2007 7:34 AM
subject RE: [Vsg] biographical information for current/recent leadership
One question already:
I am working on inter-provincial competition and wondered if the bios extend to regional leaders in Vietnam.
Thanks,
"Maxner, Steve" <steve.maxner@ttu.edu>
date Feb 24, 2007 8:07 AM
subject RE: [Vsg] biographical information for current/recent leadership
Thomas:
There are files down to the Province and local leaders but the level of detail fluctuates. The files for officials and individuals active during the war is much greater than for those who have come to power since, for the obvious reasons.
The easiest way to find out is to conduct searches in the Virtual Archive using the names of the officials.
Steve