Profiles

The Vice Chairman of the NA’s Committee for Finance and Budget told VietNamNet that individual deputies should be allocated funds to investigate the Government’s spending.   Deputy Trinh Huy Quach, 56, was born in Hung Yen province and has been a Party member since 1986. Quach’s an economist and a PhD. Though...

NA’s Committee for Defence and Security Chairman Le Quang Binh is a strong advocate of reforms to make the legislature more effective. Interviewed by VietNamNet, Binh didn’t mince words.    Deputy Le Quang Binh, 62, represents his birthplace, Thanh Hoa province, in the National Assembly though he now lives...

“I don’t want to be just an average deputy,” permanent member of the Justice Committee Nguyen Van Luat told VietNamNet during another interview in its series, ‘Know Your Representative.’  VietNamNet: Your home is in Ha Dong district, far from your office in Ba Dinh district (downtown Hanoi). How do you get...

Traditional mortician Nguyen Quyen, 48, is very famous in the central region for his techniques of making up and preserving dead bodies. Traditional mortician Nguyen Quyen. In Hue City, dead people are often kept at home for seven to ten days before they are buried. It’s Quyen’s job to keep them dry and smelling sweet. Elderly...

National Assembly member Nguyen Van Pha told VietNamNet reporters that it is difficult for deputies to carry out their responsibilities as legislators if they also hold down other positions.   VietNamNet: As one of the three deputies who are members of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, what are your advantages in comparison...

Hard years of making a living by collecting waste didn’t hinder Nguyen Dinh Toan’s strong will, instead it helped him become world taekwondo champion. Nguyen Dinh Toan (middle) and his team. Toan’s father, Nguyen Dinh Hoan, was born by a Vietnamese mother and a Russian father nad then left to be nurtured at the Hanoi...

Deputy Le Van Cuong says it’s part of a legislator’s job to speak truth to power – provided he has the facts straight. Another in VietNamNet’s ‘Know Your Deputy’ series.  Background: Thanh Hoa province deputy Le Van Cuong made headlines when he questioned PM Nguyen Tan Dung persistently at a National...

“The relations between the National Assembly and the government are the relatively independent but not oppositional. We’re all on the same team,” says deputy Le Minh Hong.  Deputy Le Minh Hong was born on January 25 1949 in Ninh Binh Province in North Vietnam. He now lives in Hanoi. Hong is the Vice Chairman...

The deputy leader of the Thai Nguyen province delegation at the National Assembly, Do Manh Hung, calls working as a legislator “a special job, in which one gains a lot and loses nothing.”   VietNamNet: You were a member of the Thai Binh province People’s Council and now you are an NA deputy. Do you consider working...

“I was a detective, and met a lot of people in that role. Meeting the people as a National Assembly deputy is very different,” said Tuyet Minh, a police officer from Kien Giang.  This is another in VietNamNet’s ‘Know Your Deputy’ series.  Bui Tuyet Minh was born in 1962 in the far south province...