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	Encyclopedia: Nong Duc Manh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Manh, a forestry engineer and head of the lawmaking National Assembly, was selected at a closed-door meeting of the party's central committee last Tuesday, but officials insisted the new boss would be chosen "democratically" during the four-day party congress that ended in the capital Hanoi on Sunday.
		Manh is from the Tay minority and becomes the first member of an ethnic minority to hold the top position in the Communist Party's 71-year history.
		Manh was born into an ethnic Tay family in 1940 in the northern province of Bac Can and rumours have long circulated that he is the illegitimate son of Ho Chi Minh, communist Vietnam's revered founder, who died in 1969.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nong-Duc-Manh (601 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nong Duc Manh said that he was delighted that he has an opportunity during his current visit to China to carry out fruitful meetings and talks with General Secretary Jiang Zemin and other leading cadres from the CCP's Central Committee.
		Nong Duc Manh gave a high appraisal of the friendly contacts between the VNA and China's NPC, and hopes that both sides will continuously strive to strengthen bilateral and multilateral discussions and cooperation in order to enrich the substance for development of relations between the two countries.
		Nong Duc Manh said that this year is the first year of the new millennium and that the international situation has become more complex.
	www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /oasien/china/service/bbc/011203.txt (6052 words)

	Party leaders Manh, Jiang laud robust progress in VN-China ties
		HA NOI — Party leader Nong Duc Manh and his Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin on Friday applauded the impressive strides Viet Nam and China have taken to strengthen their relationship since normalising ties in 1991.
		As the talks got underway, Manh told his host that he was delighted to visit China in the first year of the new century, with the Communist Party and people of China having just finished celebrations of the Party’s 80th anniversary and preparations now afoot for the 16th Party Congress.
		Manh congratulated China on its success in building the Chinese nation over the past 80 years, particularly during the last 20 years of the open-door policy.
	www.viettrade.net /ban_dat_vn/sino-viet-border/Manh_visits_China.htm (1276 words)

	CNN.com - Vietnam announces new leader - April 22, 2001
		Manh 's appointment was announced on Sunday, at the close of a four-day national congress, although he was elected last Tuesday, during a closed-door meeting of the Party's Central Committee.
		Manh is the first member of a minority group to head the party.
		Manh has a reputation as being a savvy politician who is effective in seeking consensus -- a skill that could be put to good use since Vietnam remains divided on its political and economic path.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/04/22/vietnam.leader (529 words)

	Asia Times: Manh-sized job for Vietnam's new leader
		Manh, who has a reputation as clean and untainted, has led the National Assembly for nine years and is accepted as being more receptive to economic reforms than the man he has ousted, Le Kha Phieu.
		Nong Duc Manh was born into a family of the Tay ethnic minority group in Cuong Loi village, Na Ri District, Bac Can Province on September 11, 1940.
		Manh was elected through by-election to the post of deputy chairman of the National Assembly Nationalities Council at the eighth National Assembly.
	www.atimes.com /se-asia/CD24Ae02.html (1145 words)

	RSF Warns About Nong Duc Manh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although he is the youngest member of the communist party leadership at 61, Nong Duc Manh is no reformist.
		A product of the communist nomenklatura, 61-year-old Nong Duc Manh was nominated to the post of secretary general of the communist party in April 2001 to replace Le Kha Phieu, considered too rigid.
		Nong Duc Manh has never defended Vietnamese dissidents and especially not journalists who are still liable to heavy jail sentences for "libel" and "spreading false news".
	www.fva.org /200111/story03.htm (308 words)

	The 9h Partycongres of CPV
		The 60-year-old Manh was endorsed by a unanimous show of hands at a closed-door meeting of the party's 150-member central committee-designate Tuesday, the sources said.
		Manh is also set to enjoy the support of his own secretariat in the day to day running of the party.
		Manh, an ethnic Tay, has been mentioned before as a favourite to take the party position and is considered a stronger supporter of economic reform than Phieu.
	www.davifo.dk /Partikongres.htm (2965 words)

	CNN.com - Reformer wins leadership in Vietnam - April 18, 2001
		Manh would be the first member of a minority group to be party chief, replacing conservative Le Kha Phieu.
		Manh initially turned down his nomination Tuesday morning but was elected to the top post in an internal party congress in the afternoon.
		Manh has been widely rumored to be an illegitimate son of communist Vietnam's founding father Ho Chi Minh, a suggestion he has not specifically denied.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/04/17/vietnam.manh (575 words)

	Nong Duc Manh
		Nong Duc Manh is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
		His official biography says that he was the son of peasants of the ethnic group tay[?] and that he was born on September 11, 1945, in Cuong Loi, Na Ri District, province of Bac Kan[?].
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/no/Nong_Duc_Manh.html (81 words)

	TIMEasia.com: News -- A New Manh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Manh is on the record as wanting to change Vietnam from a diktat society to one governed by a legal code that applies equally to everyone.
		Manh represents a new generation of leadership for Vietnam: his career was forged not in the jungles of war but in communist training schools.
		His parents, Manh says, were named Nong Van Lai and Hoang Thi Nhi, ethnic Tay farmers in the remote northern province of Bac Can, who both died when he was young.
	www.time.com /time/asia/news/magazine/0,9754,195399,00.html (1163 words)

	AFTER THE PARTY CONGRESS
		The new General Secretary Nong Duc Manh selected by the 9th Congress, is from an ethnic minority, the Tay.
		That Nong Van Manh was selected general secretary did not flash a bright flaring light in the minds of the great majority of the Vietnamese.
		Nong Duc Manh was given the top post because of many possible reasons.
	www.vietquoc.com /na051201.htm (1350 words)

	President Jiang Zemin Held Talks with General Secretary Nong Duc Manh of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Vietnamese ...
		He noted that as Manh visited China last year, the two sides discussed the contents of the 16-letter principle and agreed to educate their people using the spirit of China-Vietnam friendship from generation to generation so that they will carry on and reinforce the traditional friendship between the two countries.
		Manh said the CPV, the Vietnamese government and people are very happy to see the good-neighborly and friendly relations between the two Parties and two countries, which are now in the best period of development over the past decade.
		Manh noted that Vietnam is very pleased to see the tremendous achievements the Chinese people have scored in the past one year, adding that China's economy has grown very rapidly and China has enjoyed social and political stability.
	www.chinaembassy-canada.org /eng/wjb/zzjg/yzs/gjlb/2792/2794/t16270.htm (1280 words)

	Progress and problems
		Manh, 60, is an urbane and widely travelled person and United States officials have said that he is a man they can do business with.
		There are rumours that Manh is in fact the biological son of the father of the nation - Ho Chi Minh.
		Manh has, however, laughingly denied the story, saying that his parents died when he was very young and, for that matter, every Vietnamese is a son or daughter of the legendary Uncle Ho.
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl1810/18100650.htm (1198 words)

	CNN.com - Vietnam picks new leader - April 19, 2001
		Party sources said that in picking Manh the new central committee also voted in a new 15-member elite politburo, retaining 11 of the previous 18 and adding four new members.
		He said, "Mr Manh has a number of positive traits; number one, he's young as party secretary at the age of 60".
		Manh, the National Assembly chairman since 1992, would be the first ethnic minority member to become party chief.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/04/19/vietnam.new.manh (803 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		However, in April 2001 the CPV designated a "modernizer", Nong Duc Manh, to the position of General Secretary.
		While Nong Duc Manh poses no threat to the hegemonic position of the CPV in Vietnam, his designation may signal a renewed emphasis on economic and social reform.
		The recent ascent (April 2001) of Nong Duc Manh to the post of General Secretary of the CPV, however, may signal the resurgence of reformist forces within the Party.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Vie1.htm (573 words)

	Vietnams Manh wraps up strategic China visit.htm in Business Recorder on December 05, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The five-day trip, Manh's first to China since becoming party general secretary in April, was one of a series of high-level visits by the Communist neighbours to boost ties, resolve disputes and swap experiences on economic reform.
		During Manh's visit to China - which is due to enter the World Trade Organisation next week after a 15-year quest - WTO director-general Mike Moore said in Hanoi he hoped also to see Vietnam accede to the trade body in two years.
		Manh's visit also came on the heels of Vietnam's ratification of a historic trade pact with the United States that, if properly implemented, should ease Hanoi's eventual accession to the world trade body, diplomats say.
	www.paksearch.com /br2001/Dec/5/Vietnams%20Manh%20wraps%20up%20strategic%20China%20visit.htm (615 words)

	Window International Network - Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		His official biography says that he was born in 1940 to peasants of the ethnic group "tay," but it's been rumored for some time that he may be the illegitimate son of Ho Chi Minh, founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
		Manh is viewed by many as a modernizer and said after his election that he would step up the fight against corruption and unnecessary bureaucracy in Vietnam.
		Pray God show both president Tran Duc Luong and secretary general Nong Duc Manh of the Communist Party that Christianity is not corruption, but truth.
	www.win1040.com /leadersb/a0000452.cfm (473 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Vietnam's leader urges reform
		In his speech, General Secretary Nong Duc Manh called on the deputies to focus on improved law-making.
		The call by Mr Manh for a renewed commitment to democracy and the rights of the individual is familiar in Communist Party rhetoric.
		But in a one-party state where opposition voices are silenced and the media is tightly controlled, it is hard to assess whether Mr Manh's speech is a repeat of the old rhetoric, or a sign of genuine intent to reform.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2137976.stm (423 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| The Manh Most Likely to Succeed \| 5/4/2001
		Manh was applauded for empowering the National Assembly to evaluate party decisions and for permitting critical views to be expressed — even televised.
		Manh's dash of ethnic exotica also has fed the pervasive rumor that he is the product of a liaison between a Tay servant and her employer, the revolutionary icon Ho Chi Minh.
		Manh deflects this neatly, saying: "We are all children of Ho Chi Minh." If he can translate that verbal dexterity into economic adroitness, maybe Vietnam can at last take off.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/nations/0,8782,107718,00.html (1015 words)

	Nong duc manh - Hu Jintao Holds Talks With Nong Duc Manh
		PDO -- Nong Duc Manh, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, met on Thursday morning in Hanoi the delegation headed
		Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh vowed to enhance friendship and co-operation between the parties, states and people of Viet Nam and Cuba.
		Nong Duc Manh, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, will arrive in New Delhi on April 30,
	webpageshome.com /wph/nong-duc-manh.html (594 words)

	Secretary General of the Vietnamese Communist Party Central Committee Nong Duc Manh Meets Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan
		On July 24, 2001, Secretary General of the Vietnamese Communist Party Central Committee Nong Duc Manh met with Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan, who is in Hanoi to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum.
		Manh said that Vietnam will continue to attach importance to its ties with traditional friendly countries, neighboring states and other socialist countries, adding that Vietnam stands ready to intensify all-round cooperation with China.
		Conveying the cordial greetings to Manh from General Secretary Jiang Zemin and other Chinese state and party leaders, Tang extended warm congratulations on the success of the Ninth National Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party and on Manh's election as General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
	www.chinaembassy.org.pg /eng/xwdt/t47625.htm (495 words)

	Center for East Asian Studies: Leadership Change in Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Vietnam's ruling Communist Party on Sunday named National Assembly chairman Nong Duc Manh as its new secretary-general, the country's most powerful leadership post.
		An ethnic Tay who served as National Assembly chief from 1992 and rumoured to be the illegitimate son of late revolutionary hero Ho Chi Minh, Mr Manh is Vietnam's first ever leader from a minority background.
		Existing and prospective investors from abroad hope the appointment of reform-minded Nong Duc Manh will bring much-needed economic and administrative reform to Vietnam.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/newsfile/vnnewleader/010422-cna.htm (212 words)

	Predator - Nong Duc Manh (Vietnam)
		Although he is the youngest member of the communist party politburo, Nong Duc Manh, 61, is not a reformist.
		Nong Duc Manh did not relaxed the policies against Vietnamese dissidents imposed by his predecessor, Le Kha Phieu.
		Dissident journalists are still liable to heavy jail sentences for "libel" and "spreading false news".
	www.rsf.org /rsf/uk/Predateurs/html/khaphieu.html (146 words)

	Datum: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:43:24 +0100 (BST) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Extending a welcome to Nong Duc Manh and his delegation, Li called Nong Duc Manh, who visited China in 1994, an old friend, and said that he was very happy to meet Nong Duc Manh in Beijing.
		Nong Duc Manh said that Vietnam speaks highly of the treaty, which benefits the two peoples.
		Nong Duc Manh called the two countries good neighbours, and said that the two peoples had supported and sympathized with each other in their long-standing revolutionary struggles, and established deep friendship under the leadership of Chairman Ho Chi Minh and Chairman Mao Zedong, adding that Vietnam will never forget China's help.
	www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /oasien/china/service/bbc/000406.htm (4767 words)

	Nhan Dan --- News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He said he was pleased to witness the fruitful developments in the relationship between the two countries' legislatures in the recent past and that he hoped the two agencies would increase their sharing of experiences in law-making.
		General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nong Duc Manh paid an official visit to France from June 6-9 at the invitation of President Jacques Chirac and the French authorities.
		General Secretary Nong Duc Manh thanked France for its assistance to Vietnam in many fields, and its support for Vietnam's efforts to strengthen co-operation with the European Union and international organisations.
	www.nhandan.com.vn /english/news/100605/party.htm (1553 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Modernising leader for Vietnam
		Mr Manh, 61, is the country's first secretary-general with no direct experience of Vietnam's long wars for independence.
		A member of the Tay minority, Mr Manh's first taste of high office was as head of the party committee for nationalities, where he fashioned ethnic policy.
		Asked to comment on the rumours, Mr Manh said his parents had died when he was very young.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1291000.stm (461 words)

	NA Chairman Manh takes aid and sympathy to Lai Chau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Manh helped distribute a rice-husking machine warm blankets and clothing to the victims of October 03 terrifying landslide, a disaster that stunned a nation already grappling with massive flood losses in the Mekong River Delta.
		Manh carefully inspected the devastated village with local officials and ordered the distribution of relief aid to take place urgently, so that the villagers could return to normal life as soon as possible.
		Manh also praised Sung Lu, a H’mong man with a golden heart from a nearby village, who has offered 14 sets of clothes, two cotton blankets and one ton of rice to the victims and their families.
	www.undp.org.vn /dmu/events/Events-2000/001007-a/en/001014-b.htm (291 words)

	Vietnamese party chief meets japanese emperor PREMIER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		General Secretary Nong Duc Manh invited the Japanese emperor, empress, and other members of the Japanese royal family to visit Vietnam.
		General Secretary Nong Duc Manh thanked the Japanese government and people for their assistance with Vietnam's renovation process.
		Also on the same day, General Secretary Nong Duc Manh and his entourage met with Speaker of the House of Representatives Watanuki Tamisuke and Speaker of the House of Councillors Kurata Hiroyuki.
	perso.numericable.fr /~patrickgu/cantho/vnnews/emperor.htm (602 words)

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