VTV’s senior deputy general director Tran Dang Tuan told VietNamNet that he submitted his resignation to the Government Office on August 24.

Tran Dang Tuan, who guided Vietnam Television (VTV) from a single channel, five hours daily operation in the pre-doi moi era to its present multi-channel, high technological and programming standard, is trying to quit.

VTV’s senior deputy general director told VietNamNet that he submitted his resignation to the Government Office on August 24.

At the government’s monthly press conference on August 31, Government Office chair Nguyen Xuan Phuc said the Government had not received Tuan’s resignation.

Tuan told VietNamNet that he would send another resignation by post to the Government Office on September 1.

Tuan also withdrew from membership on VTV’s Party committee at the network’s 9^th Party Congress on August 24-25, reasoning that he would leave this agency.

Tuan, born in 1957, holds a PhD in television technology from Lomonosov University and the Academy of Science in the former USSR. He has worked for more than 20 years at VTV and has been widely acclaimed for contributions to the network’s development.

L.Nhung