The Vietnam Yearbook of Administrative Organisation 2009 has been published to provide information on the country’s administrative organisations for Party and State agencies, socio-economic organisations and people, contributing to information transparency in the process of administrative reform.

Speaking at a press conference to launch the yearbook in Hanoi on November 19, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Van Tat Thu said his ministry coordinated with the Statistics Publishing House under the General Statistics Office (GSO) to issue the yearbooks in 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2005.

To update information on changes in administrative units and systems of administrative organs at all levels, the ministry has entrusted the Institute for State Organisation Science to implement the publication of this book, he added.

The 1,110-page yearbook, with Vietnamese and English versions, includes information on the Prime Minister and deputy PMs, the Central and local administrative organisation systems with addresses and phone numbers of administrative organisations and their leaders updated by June 2009./.