Phan Văn Khải (born December 25, 1933 in suburb of Cu Chi, of the former city of Saigon), now the municipality of Hồ Chí Minh City, is the Prime Minister of Vietnam since September 24, 1997, and was re-elected in August 2002. Image File history File links Pvk. ... December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Montreal skyline at night For alternate meanings see city (disambiguation) A city is an urban area that is differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. ... Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành Chí Minh) is the largest city in Vietnam, located near the delta of the Mekong River. ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành Chí Minh) is the largest city in Vietnam, located near the delta of the Mekong River. ... Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister A prime minister may be either: chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the... September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải was born on December 25, 1933 in Tan Thong Hoi village in Cu Chi district, now a suburban ward of Hồ Chí Minh City (formerly Saigon). December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ...

He began his activist career at a very early age, when he was admitted to the village's chapter of the Vietnam revolutionary children's movement at the age of 14. Just before he turned 21, Khải was among those members of the VietMinh who moved to northern Vietnam under the Geneva Agreement on Indochina signed in July 1954. 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Shortly after his arrival in the North in October of 1954, Khải took part in a land reform drive launched in northern Vietnam to reallocate land from its owners to poorer peasants. 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Categories: 1911 Britannica | Historical stubs | Feudalism ...

Khải attended a special training school for workers and peasants and obtained a secondary-education diploma before being admitted to the Foreign Languages College in Hanoi. Thereafter, Khai was sent to the former Soviet Union for five years to study economics at the Moscow National University. Hanoi (Vietnamese: quoc ngu ; chu nom 河内), estimated population 3,083,800 (2004), is the capital of Vietnam and was the capital of North Vietnam from 1954 to 1976. ... U.S. Economic Calendar Economics at the Open Directory Project Economics textbooks on Wikibooks The Economists Economics A-Z Daily analysis of economics in the news (UK focus) Institutions and organizations Bureau of Labor Statistics - from the American Labor Department Center for Economic and Policy Research (USA) National Bureau...

After returning home, he worked as an economist and was later promoted to the post of deputy chief and then chief of a section attached to the General Department of the State Planning committee. In 1972, Khải became a researcher of southern Vietnam's economy. One year later he served with the Vietcong in South Vietnam. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... A Viet Cong soldier, heavily guarded, awaits interrogation following capture in the attacks on Saigon during the festive Tet holiday period of 1968. ... Official language Vietnamese Capital Saigon Last President Duong Van Minh Last Prime Minister Vu Van Mau Area  - Total  - % water 173,809km² N/A Population  - Total  - Density 19,370,000 (1973 est. ...

He returned to Hanoi in 1974 and was appointed deputy director of the aid planning department of the Government's National Reunification Committee. One year after, when the Vietnam War ended in April 1975, Khải became deputy director of the planning department of the People's Committee of Hồ Chí Minh City. He was promoted to director of the same department and vice mayor of Hồ Chí Minh City over the next three years. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or Viet Cong) against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies — notably the United States military in support of... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

Then, in 1981 he was appointed HCM City permanent deputy mayor. Khải was elected to the post of Hồ Chí Minh City Mayor in 1985 and remained in that job for five years when he was appointed chairman of the State Planning Committee in 1989. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... This article is about the year. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He was appointed to the post of permanent deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1991 and to the post of permanent deputy prime minister the following year. He remained in the post until 1997 when he was elected the new Prime Minister of Vietnam. Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải was re-elected in August, 2002. 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Khải was admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) when he was 26 years old. His first position in the Party organisation was established in 1979 when he was elected as executive member to the HCM City Party Committee. Stamp featuring Ho Chi Minh commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Communist Party The Communist Party of Vietnam (Đảng Cá»™ng Sản Việt Nam) is the currently and indefinitely ruling, as well as the only legal political party in Vietnam. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

He was elected as alternate member to the CPV Central Committee at the fifth National Party Congress in March 1982 and became full member to the CPV Central Committee in July 1984. He remained a full member of the Party Central Committee for eight years until the seventh National Party Congress was convened in June 1991 when he was elected as member to the Political Bureau of the CPV Central Committee. He was re-elected as member to the Political Bureau of the CPV Central Committee at the Eighth National Party Congress in June 1996 and at the Ninth National Party Congress in April 2002. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He met President Bush on June 21, 2005. (This is a re-write of the article from the Embassy of Vietnam cited in the external link below. It is an effort to make the piece more understandable to English-speaking readers) George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Vietnamese Embassy biography