MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF LAW THE Ph.D DISSERTATION SUMMARY Dissertation title: Right to be informed of citizens in Vietnam Specialization: Constitution Law and Administrative Law Code: 62.38.01.02 Ph.D candidate: Thai Thi Tuyet Dung Supervisors: Dr Nguyen Duc Chinh Dr Do Minh Khoi Educational Institution: Ho Chi Minh City University of Law SUMMARY NEW CONCLUSION OF THE DISSERTATION It has been the first research in Vietnam investigating theories and practices of the right to be informed of citizens in Vietnam today systematically and comprehensively The dissertation features the analyses concepts, characteristics and legal ensuring measures for the implementation of this right The dissertation points out what information and how the right to this type of information by citizens is introspective; the right to impart information belong to the right to be informed or not; comparison the right to to be informed with the right to freedom of information, the right to access information It includes the dissertation writer’s comprehensive and objective analyses, remarks, and evaluations of the right to assess information of citizens in Vietnam at present, through which lead to the findings of the logics, and feasibility of the current laws of the right to be informed of citizens in Vietnam It codifies the laws of the right to be informed according to the history of establishment and development of these laws in Vietnam The Ph.D dissertation also analyses and compares with the corresponding laws of the right to be informed in other countries, through which it leads to some recommendations to propose orientations and specific recommendations for improving the right to be informed of citizens in Vietnam under the analysis of practice, objective demand and perfection perspective The dissertation writer’s comprehensive and specific recommendations are the scientific foundation for the continuous development and fulfillment of the laws of the right to be informed of citizens in Vietnam, they can also make contributions to ensure the realization of this right in practice Ho Chi Minh city, March 19th, 2014 Doctoral Candidate Thái Thị Tuyết Dung