Lữ Y Minister of Public Works: Bửu Đôn Minister of Justice: Huỳnh Đức Bửu Minister for Ethnic Development: Paul Nur Minister of Agriculture and Land: Tôn Thất Trình Minister of Social Affairs and Refugees: Dr. Nguyễn Phúc Quế Transport Minister: Lương Thái Siêu And two Ministers in charge of other areas. Deputy Ministers are Phạm Đăng Lâm (Diplomacy), Trần Lưu Cung (Education; in charge of Universities and Specializations), Professor Lê Trọng Vinh (Education; in charge of First, Secondary and High School), Law. Professor Hồ Thới Sang (Education; in charge of School Youth), Professor Bùi Xuân Bào (Culture), Nguyễn Chánh Lý (Commerce), Võ Văn Nhung (Technology). Professor Nguyễn Văn Tường and Đoàn Bá Cang hold the positions of Ministers of the Prime Minister's Office. After the 1968 Tet Offensive, he was criticized and forced to resign. Since then, he has stopped doing politics and has turned to teaching. Fall of Saigon On 30 April 1975, when South Vietnam collapsed to the advancing forces of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, Lộc like other high-ranking government and military officials of the Saigon government that stayed behind were sent to re-education camp operated by the new Communist Vietnamese government. In an interview with the New York Times, Lộc describes in the re-education camps he and other inmates were forced to perform hard labor such as clearing the jungles, swamps, and minefields to building dams and farming. He mentions the conditions of the camps were so brutal that two or three people within the camps would die every week from malnutrition or illnesses In 1980, after spending five brutal years in the re-education camp, the Communist government decided to let Lộc return to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). Lộc explains, I nearly died in the labor camp, where I was kept with about 1,500 others on a near starvation diet, they let me return to Saigon in 1980 only after they felt that I was dying. References 1922 births 1992 deaths South Vietnamese politicians Prime Ministers of South Vietnam Vietnamese emigrants to Singapore