Lai Van Hung, Director of the Vietnam Institute of Lexicography andEncyclopaedia under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), saidon March 25 that the set will comprise 35 volumes with 30,000 entries.Each volume will have 1,000 pages.
The compilation of anencyclopaedia is new to Vietnam and the VASS, Hung said, adding that theacademy will begin building encyclopaedias on literature, lexicographyand economics.
Vietnamese scientists will study both domestic and international experience in order to compile the set of books.-VNA