Vo Hong Phuc is the Minister of Planning and Investment in Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

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He graduated in 1968 at the Hanoi University of Technology

Hanoi University of Technology

Hanoi University of Science and Technology , founded 1956, is the first and largest technical university in Vietnam.- History :...

. He had since been an employee of the Department of Industry of the SPC, rising in 1992 to become the vice-chairman. A member of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party, he was the Minister of Planning and Investment since 2002.

In October 2003, Vo Hong Phuc was Minister of Planning and Investment and visited Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

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