Guide Note
Vo Van Kiet, the former Prime Minister of Vietnam, died in Singapore on June 11, 2008, at the age of 85. A former member of the Viet Cong, Kiet helped preside over the Communist nation's economic transformation in the 1990s.
Fast Facts
- Born: November 23, 1922
- First term as Prime Minister: March 10 to June 22, 1988
- Second term as Prime Minister: August 8, 1991 to September 25, 1997
- Spouse: Phan Luong Cam
- Died: June 11, 2008
- Two-day state funeral
- Oversaw nation's market reforms of 1990s
- Fought French forces in First Indochina War
- Fought against United States and South Vietnamese soldiers in Vietnam War
- First wife and children killed in American airstrike
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