The generous financial support of numerous individuals and of the following organizations is gratefully acknowledged:

• Congress of Vietnamese in America
• Vietnam Helsinki Committee
• Vietnamese Community of Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia
Conference Proceedings

Welcome and Opening Remarks, Tran Binh Tinh, Association des Techniciens Vietnamiens d'Outre-Mer

Concluding Remarks, Thuan V. Truong, Vietnamese Professionals of America

Political and Religious Aspects

• Vietnam: Toward the Open Society, Douglas Pike, Vietnam Center, Texas Tech
• Vietnam: le Communisme en Pleine Decadence Face au Retour de la Foi, Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Radio Free Asia
• Speech, Pham Anh Dung, Federation des Droits de l'Homme au Vietnam

Economic Issues

• Le Probleme Vietnamien de l'Ascension au Developpement Economique, Vu Quoc Thuc, Agrege, Faculte de Nanterre
• The Law and Economics of Development: Anti-Corruption Programs and their Impact on Efficeincy and Equity, Eduardo Buscaglia, Ph.D, Fellow, Hoover Institution
• Poverty, Corruption, and Property Rights in Communist Vietnam, Thuan V. Truong, Vietnamese Professionals of America, Inc.
• Determinants of Enterprise Performance during Transition, Mark Schaffer, Ph.D,, Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, Heriot-Watt University
• Le Vietnam face a la Crise Financiere Asiatique, Lam Thanh Liem, Ph.D., l'Institut de l'Asie du Sud-Est, Paris

Health

• Le Bilan Sanitaire du Vietnam a l'Aube du Troisieme Millenaire, Tran Cong Phat, MD, l'Assistance Publique de Paris
• Child Nutrition and Vietnam's Transition to the Market, Ninez, Ponce, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
• La santé publique, condition nécessaire à la prospérité au Vietnam, Huynh Do Phi, MD, Institut Universitaire de Médecine Sociale & Préventive, Lausanne

 Education

• L'Education, une Necessite, un Espoir, un Defi, Lila Sorel, Faculte des Sciences de l'Education, Universite du Quebec a Montreal.

Social Considerations

• Les Transformations Possibles des Mentalites du Communisme a la Liberte, Ion-Alexandre Ghika, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
• Assumer le Passe pour Construire l'Avenir, Jean-Luc Berlet, Professor de Philosophie et Ecrivain