Nguyen
Thi Binh
Nguyen Thi Binh is the Vice-President of the Socialist republic of Vietnam.
Madame Nguyen Thi Binh is recognized as a leading woman
in Asia and has played an important role in the liberation of
her country during the Vietnam War.
Born
in 1927, Madame Nguyen Thi Binh worked as a teacher after completing
secondary education. From 1945 to 1951, she took part in various
women activities and the movement of students and intellectuals
against the French colonialists and American forces. She was
arrested and jailed between 1951 and 1953 by the French. After
serving her jail term, Madame Nguyen Thi Binh participated in
the peace movement for the implementation of the Geneva Agreement.
During
the war against the US intervention, she became a member of
the Central Committee for the National Front for the Liberation
of the South and Vice-Chairperson of the Women liberation Association
of the South of Vietnam. In 1969 she served as Foreign Minister
of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic
of South Vietnam.
Madame
Nguyen Thi Binh is regarded as a symbol of the women’ s role
in the “Resistance War”. After the communist victory in April
1975, she was appointed Minister of Education in united Vietnam.
She was elected Vice-President of the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam in 1992 and then re-elected in 1997 and has served as
Vietnamese Vice-President again since then.
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Thailand Plays Host to a Unique Visit of Vietnamese Vice-President Madame Nguyen Thi Binh
Ngo
Ba Thanh
A doctor
of law, Mrs. Thanh is vice-president of the Vietnamese Lawyers'
Association, a deputy to the National Assembly, and a member
of the Central Executive Committee of the Viet Nam Women's Union.
She is also a member of the presidium of the Viet Nam Motherland
Front and vice-president of the Vietnam Union of Friendship
Associations. On the international side, Mrs. Thanh is a member
of the International Law and Practice American Bar Association,
and the French Societe de Legislation Comparee.
Mrs.
Ngo Ba Thanh (also known as Dinh Thi Thanh Van) was born in
1930 in Ha Tinh Province. She graduated with doctorates in law
from Paris University (France) and Barcelona University (Spain),
and studied comparative law at Columbia University (U.S.A.). She has taught law in many universities
throughout the world. During the Viet Nam war, Mrs. Thanh was
a member of "the third force" she was jailed for five
years by the American-supported Saigon government.
The
American Biographical Institute (ABI) has chosen Mrs. Ngo Ba
Thanh as a "Woman of the Year for 1998." ABI said
that the award is based on "Mrs. Ngo Ba Thanh's outstanding
accomplishments to date and the noble example she has set for
peers and the entire community."
